[ATrpms-users] sk98lin-kmdl for CentOS 5.3 kernel ?

Axel Thimm Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
Wed Apr 1 20:35:57 CEST 2009


On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 02:07:34PM -0400, Tuan Hoang wrote:
> Axel Thimm wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 12:16:59PM -0400, Tuan Hoang wrote:
> >> Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> >>> 2009/4/1 Vnpenguin <vnpenguin at vnoss.org>:
> >>>> The current kernel of CentOS is "kernel-2.6.18-128.el5"
> >>>> So the module "sk98lin-kmdl-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5" is ok for this kernel
> >>>> ? I can not found some thing like "sk98lin-kmdl-2.6.18-128.el5"
> >>>> (without 1.1) but not found.
> >>> I'm afraid you will have to wait for the modules to be available...
> >>> Give Axel a bit of time ...
> >>>
> >> Nothing for Axel to do.  He's already on the errata update kernel 
> >> 2.6.18-128.1.1.el5.
> > 
> > Indeed, I maintained the latest kernels for 5.2 and 5.3, please make
> > sure you upgrade the system first. Kernel errata on RHEL/CentOS are
> > really important, as they usually really include needed security
> > fixes.
> > 
> >> Of course I would like to see him maintain kmdl's for the stock 5.3 
> >> kernel as well as the latest errata kernel...but I have nothing to give 
> >> in return except my gratitude.
> >>
> >> BTW, is there any documentation (or FAQ) that has explicit steps in 
> >> order to setup a clean Linux install to [re]build the kmdl's?
> > 
> > yum/smart/apt-get install atrpms-rpm-config
> > rpmbuild --rebuild foo.src.rpm
> > 
> > Maybe you need to choose which kernel you want to build for with
> > --define 'kmdl_kernelsrcdir /where/my/sources/are'
> > 
> 
> Axel - Not sure if you remember, but it was finding the kernel versions 
> find but wouldn't generate the kmdl RPM's...was build just one but 
> without the kernel version appended to the RPM name.

The current default is to just build the kmdls (as the non-kmdls are
the same always, so no need to rebuild them unless the src.rpm also
changed).

> Under CentOS 4.7, I haven't upgraded my RPM to your 4.4.x...do you know 
> if this is why?  I haven't tried it under my CentOS 5.2 box 
> yet...downloading the 5.3 ISO's as we speak.

I'm not sure why it doesn't upgrade. Do you have any apt/yum/smart output?
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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