advansys scsi == ouch

[Paul Howarth]

On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 23:49, John McBride wrote:
> I'm sorry to say I'm not sure which version it was, I download it off 
> the web on July 1st. though. I think I can find out and email you off 
> list. Installing it this way (did not see it on the servers in my 
> yum.conf) made it tough to auto update...I'm sure that's why it barfed 
> in the upgrade.  We like it but my boss turned up his nose at the 
> "/dell" directory, he thought it should be somewhere more FSB compliant, 
> like "/opt/dell" or something (obviously neither of us are FSB gurus).

It must have been a pretty old version; I've never seen a /dell
directory in any version I've used. The current (2.0.0) rpm contains the
following files (only):

$ rpm -ql dkms
/etc/dkms/framework.conf
/etc/dkms/template-dkms-mkrpm.spec
/etc/init.d/dkms_autoinstaller
/usr/sbin/dkms
/usr/sbin/dkms_mkkerneldoth
/usr/share/doc/dkms-2.0.0
/usr/share/doc/dkms-2.0.0/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/dkms-2.0.0/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/dkms-2.0.0/sample.conf
/usr/share/doc/dkms-2.0.0/sample.spec
/usr/share/man/man8/dkms.8.gz
/var/lib/dkms
/var/lib/dkms/dkms_dbversion

I use dkms to build modules for the advansys driver (one machine only -
I only have one Advansys card) and also the MPPE module for VPN use
(several machines, see also
http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/howto-fedora-core-2.phtml). I've not
had any significant problems with it in the last 6 months. In fact,
since I've only been concerned about building the advansys module myself
since the last but one kernel update (the first that didn't include the
advansys module), I wouldn't have chosen to use dkms if I didn't think
it was the best/easiest way to do it.

Cheers, Paul.
-- 
Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>