[OpenAFS] dkms 2.2 breaks dkms-openafs on Red Hat 5

John W. Sopko Jr. sopko@cs.unc.edu
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:38:01 -0500


We use the Red Hat EPEL supplied dkms package to automatically build new afs 
kernel modules along with the dkms-openafs openafs-kernel-source rpms. 
Recently the dkms rpm was updated in the EPEL Red Hat 5 repo from 2.1 to 2.2. 
This breaks the building of the afs kernel modules. We use openafs 1.4.14, I 
tried 1.6.0 and had the same issue.

I opened this bug on bugzilla in case anyone is interested:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=787801

You can add the following entry to /etc/yum.conf to ignore upgrading
dkms under the [main] section:

[main]
exclude=dkms-2*


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