On Wednesday 14 March 2007, Axel Thimm wrote: > On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 12:20:58AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > Anne Wilson wrote: > > >A few days ago a kernel update took out the gspcav1 driver and the > > >accompanying kmdl package. At present the atrpms version can't be > > >installed: > > > > > >Error: Missing Dependency: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2869.fc6 is needed by > > >package gspcav1-kmdl-2.6.18-1.2869.fc6 > > > > > >Is a build for 2.6.19 kernels in the pipeline, or should I build from > > >source? > > It is already available since a coule of days at ATrpms. Either > install the yum-plugin-kmdl or simply do > > yum install gspcav1-kmdl-`uname -r` > Hmm - I had been trying each day, but not realising that I should give it the `uname -r` ending. > > You could possibly use the DKMS module from freshrpms.net and avoid this > > issue since DKMS auto builds against the new kernel on bootup. On the > > other hand DKMS would require compiler and related tools to be installed > > on your system. > > And lacks reproducability in case the build went wrong, which makes > kernel module debbugging even more difficult. > > (the main reason kernel folks at RH object to having kernel modules > packaged in any format whatsoever is the issues with dealing with user > bug reports on kernel/kernel modules) OK - got it, Axel. Is that all I need? I thought that originally I had a separate gspcav1 package. Sorry if it's a dumb question, but I've already admitted that I don't understand this :-) Anne
