Branches for Karmic

Author: Mario Limonciello
Revision Date: 2009-08-21 15:49:58 UTC

* New upstream version.
  - When possible, run builds as the 'nobody' user rather than root.
    This appears to work well on Ubuntu, but F11 doesn't allow anyone
    to run commands as 'nobody'. So expect mixed behavior here on
    other distros.
  - Add support for Oracle VM and VMware 3.x
  - For RPMs drop dependency on lsb and instead ship a private
    lsb_release if a system lsb_release is not present. Prevents
    pulling in a large dependency chain since the 'lsb' package isn't
    split up in RPM distros like in the DEB world.
  - Standardize on the correct command for DEB distros for updating
    the initramfs
  - DEBs & RPMs no long exclusively store DKMS tarballs that get
    loaded when the DEB or RPM is installed. Instead, they will store
    the actual source.
  - When shipping binary modules with a DEB or RPM, they will still be
    put into a DKMS tarball, but they are stored in a more appropriate
    location on the system before getting loaded (generally /usr/share).
  - If the DEB/RPM has a combination of these two, then it will ship
    the source as part of the DEB/RPM and the binary modules inside
    the tarball in /usr/share.
  - Support for binaries only DEBS and RPMS has been added. This
    unfortunately requires that they DEB or RPM be installed on DKMS
    2.1.0.0. Keep in mind that you won't be able to let these DEBs or
    RPMs rebuild automatically when new kernels are installed.
  - A common postinstall script is now shipped and shared for DEBs and
    RPMs. The same actions are used on both types of installations.
  - Cleanup stderr noise on remove (LP: #391023)