On Sat, 2008-03-08 at 22:49 -0600, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 9:54 PM, Matthew Saltzman <mjs@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> > In theory, you could build your own 169.12 kmod package for the old
> > kernel, but I'm not sure exactly what steps you would need to take.
> > --
> > Matthew Saltzman
>
> Funny you should say that. I've consulted with the livna leaders!
>
> This works, all on one line, replace the src.rpm with the one you
> want. This assumes you are booted into the kernel for which you are
> trying to rebuild the kmod-nvidia RPM.
>
> rpmbuild --rebuild /tmp/nvidia-kmod-169.12-2.lvn8.src.rpm --define
> "kernels $(uname -r)" --target=i686
>
> Cheers. This did work just now for the koji kernel kernel-2.6.24.3-22.fc8.
>
> If you are careful, you can replace the $(uname -r) with the desired
> kernel number. As in
> 2.6.24.3-22.fc8. This assumes you have kernel-devel installed to
> match the kernel. It appears it is not necessary to have
> kernel-headers installed.
Also need kmodtools.
And, of course, in the cold light of day, one can see that if you can
build for the old kernels, you should be able to build for the Koji
kernels as well 8^).
>
>
>
> PJ
>
>
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Mathematical Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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