Ram Pai wrote: > Hi, > > I have this unique problem. I am planning on providing through yum > repositories, driver rpms for different versions of the distro kernel. > As and when new kernel is available and installed by the user, the > corresponding rpm for the driver is automatically made available in the > repositories. Although Michael's response to pass kernel version to yum is interesting, I believe the aproach you're looking for requires that the particular kernel version (or to be accurate, the kernel-devel package incase of RHEL) is also installed on the yum server. Plus, some srpms only builds driver for the current running kernel by default, so you might need to tweak that as well. Have you take a look at dkms, also another DELL project, instead? http://linux.dell.com/projects.shtml dkms will allow clients to build drivers for new kernels dynamically, since when the new kernel boots dkms_autoinstaller will create the appropriate driver for it. Converting an srpm to dkms rpm is actually quite easy. I've managed to create dkms rpms for qlogic HBA driver (v8.01.07) and RHEL5's gfs (v0.1.16) the same day I found out about dkms. This should solve most driver problems. For qlogic HBA (or any scsi driver, I think), you need to reboot twice, as it will also update initrd which will only be used on the next reboot. Regards, Fajar _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
