Packaging a module that overwrites kernel-provided files

I'm currently having issues with a Broadcom Netxtreme II 5708 card when used with Xen on Debian Etch. Basically, using kernel 2.6.18 it works, but as soon as either a bridge or a routed network under Xen is started, it stops receiven packages. The servers (cause they are many) must remain using

Re: Packaging a module that overwrites kernel-provided files

On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 16:01 +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 12) /etc/network/interfaces: post-up ethtool -K eth0 tx off Fixes it here. Been there, done that, doesnt't work for these machines. The

Re: NetXtreme II BCM5708 and bridging (was: Packaging a module that overwrites kernel-provided files)

On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 17:46 +0200, Florian Ernst wrote: We were able to work around this issue by disabling the IPMI management portion of the firmware via a DOS tool as described on http://mywiki.ncsa.uiuc.edu/wiki/Dell_PE1950_NIC_Firmware_Workaround when all other approaches had failed. This

Re: Packaging a module that overwrites kernel-provided files

On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 17:47 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:14:33AM -0430, Ernesto Hernandez-Novich wrote: Is there a document or package I could follow as an example? Put the modules into /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/updates. So, if I have bnx2.ko there and also in /lib

ITP: libarchive-any-perl -- Perl module to deal with file archives in any format

Package: wnpp * Package name: libarchive-any-perl Version: 0.0932 Upstream Author: Clint Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Archive-Any/ * License: GPl/Artistic Description: The Archive::Any module allows a Perl program to create, manipulate, read, and write

ITP: libconfig-json-perl -- A parser for JSON-based configuration files

Package: wnpp * Package name: libconfig-json-perl Version: 1.1.2 Upstream Author: JT Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Config-JSON/ * License: GPL or Perl Artistic Description: Config::JSON parses configuration files written in JSON. It also does some non-JSON

ITP: libpoe-component-ikc-perl -- Perl Inter-Kernel Communication for POE

Package: wnpp * Package name: libpoe-component-ikc-perl Version: 0.2001 Upstream Author: Philip Gwyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL: http://search.cpan.org/dist/POE-Component-IKC/ * License: GPL or Perl Artistic Description: POE::Component::IKC provides several Inter-Kernel Communication methods

ITP: libtpoe-component-client-keepalive-perl -- POE component that manages and keeps alive client connections

Package: wnpp * Package name: libpoe-component-client-keepalive-perl Version: 0.1000 Upstream Author: Rocco Caputo [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL: http://search.cpan.org/dist/POE-Component-Client-Keepalive/ * License: GPL or Perl Artistic Description: POE::Component::Client::Keepalive creates and

ITP: libregexp-common-time-perl -- Regexp::Common extension for date and time matching

Package: wnpp * Package name: libregexp-common-time-perl Version: 0.01 Upstream Author: Eric J. Roode [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Regexp-Common-time/ * License: GPL or Perl Artistic Description: Regexp::Common::time extends Regexp::Common with regular expressions

ITP: libdbix-class-datetime-epoch-perl -- Automatic inflation/deflation of epoch-based DateTime objects for DBIx::Class

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ITP: libemail-mime-creator-perl -- Simple Email::MIME mail message creation

Package: wnpp * Package name: libemail-mime-creator-perl Version: 1.454 Upstream Author: Casey West [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Email-MIME-Creator/ * License: GPL or Perl Artistic Description: Email::MIME::Creator is a Perl module providing simple creation of single

ITP: libcgi-formbuilder-source-yaml-perl -- Initialize CGI::FormBuilder application from YAML file

Package: wnpp * Package name: libcgi-formbuilder-source-yaml-perl Version: 1.0008 Upstream Author: Mark Hedges [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL: http://search.cpan.org/dist/CGI-FormBuilder-Source-Yaml/ * License: GPL or Perl Artistic Description: This Perl module reads a YAML file containing

ITP: liblocale-us-perl -- Module for United States state identification

Package: wnpp * Package name: liblocale-us-perl Version: 1.02 Upstream Author: T. M. Brannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Locale-US/ * License: GPL or Perl Artistic Description: This Perl module provides methods allowing United States' two-letter state identification

ITP: libvi-quickfix-perl -- Perl support for vim's QuickFix mode

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Trying to fix tutos package

For about a couple of months I've been working in order to fix 'tutos' so that the latest upstream, plus additional plugins and handlers, is included in Sarge. The version currently available in testing is very old and misses lots of new features, plus has some annoying bugs. I've been in contact