Debian Bug report logs - #741399
dkms: consider avoiding unnecessary rpm commands

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Mike Miller <mtmiller@debian.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: dkms: consider avoiding unnecessary rpm commands

Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 23:51:35 -0400

Package: dkms
Version: 2.2.0.3-1.2
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

Dear Maintainer,

Please consider patching dkms when built for Debian to avoid unnecessary rpm
commands. We know that Debian systems do not use the rpm database so there is
no need to query it. The lsb-core package pulls in rpm.

The primary reason to patch these commands out is because when rpm is
installed, an rpm database query will be run unavoidably. With the default
configuration of the rpm package for Debian, this will create an empty rpm
database in either /root/.rpmdb (if HOME=/root) or in the system root directory
/.rpmdb (if HOME is not set, e.g. running under PackageKit).

Avoiding rpmdb queries in dkms will avoid inadvertent creation of these stray
directories.

A patch to dkms [1] was posted to Ubuntu bug #1069350 [2] that is reported
there to fix this behavior.

[1] https://launchpadlibrarian.net/167218071/disable-rpm.patch
[2] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1069350



-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental'), (1, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages dkms depends on:
ii  build-essential    11.6
ii  coreutils          8.21-1
ii  dpkg-dev           1.17.6
ii  gcc                4:4.8.2-2
ii  make               3.81-8.3
ii  module-init-tools  16-2
ii  patch              2.7.1-4

Versions of packages dkms recommends:
ii  fakeroot             1.18.4-2
ii  linux-headers-amd64  3.12+55
pn  linux-image          <none>
ii  menu                 2.1.46
ii  sudo                 1.8.9p5-1

dkms suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

Message #10 received at 741399@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>

To: Mike Miller <mtmiller@debian.org>, 741399@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: dkms: consider avoiding unnecessary rpm commands

Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 07:47:13 +0200

[Mike Miller]
> A patch to dkms [1] was posted to Ubuntu bug #1069350 [2] that is reported
> there to fix this behavior.

While I agree that we should avoid calling rpm, I believe we would be better
of by doing it in a way that could get accepted upstream.  Any idea how to
modify the patch to work also on rpm based systems?

Perhaps look for /etc/debian_version and only use rpm if it is missing?
Other ideas?

-- 
Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen

Message #15 received at 741399@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Aron Xu <aron@debian.org>

To: 741399@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: dkms: consider avoiding unnecessary rpm commands

Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 03:33:09 +0800

Control: tags -1 - patch

I'm untagging this bug because the proposed patch at Launchpad bug
tracker isn't acceptable. I'd like to avoid unnecessary calls of rpm
command, while supposed to be done a portable way which can be merged
upstream.

Best,
Aron

Message #22 received at 741399-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Debian FTP Masters <ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org>

To: 741399-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#741399: fixed in dkms 3.0.11-1

Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2023 16:36:18 +0000

Source: dkms
Source-Version: 3.0.11-1
Done: Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org>

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
dkms, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 741399@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org> (supplier of updated dkms package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)


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Format: 1.8
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2023 18:12:51 +0200
Source: dkms
Architecture: source
Version: 3.0.11-1
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Dynamic Kernel Module System Team <dkms@packages.debian.org>
Changed-By: Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org>
Closes: 741399 911665 1031561
Changes:
 dkms (3.0.11-1) experimental; urgency=medium
 .
   * New upstream release.
     - Adds BUILD_EXCLUSIVE_{CONFIG,_KERNEL_{MIN,MAX}}.  (Closes: #911665)
     - Fixes BUILD_EXCLUSIVE matches propagating as error.  (Closes: #1031561)
   * Drop patches that were applied upstream.
   * Avoid unnecessary rpm comands on Debian based systems.  (Closes: #741399)
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