On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 00:12 -0700, jak two renegade wrote: > > > Ram Pai <linuxram@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 09:13 +0700, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: > > 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. > > > Yes. the kernel-devel rpm has to be made available on the > server side > along with cgi-scripts that can do the magic of generating new > rpms on > demand. > > > 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. > > True. But DKMS solves a different set of problems. In my case > I dont > have source rpms, but only binary drivers packaged in rpms in > a > repository. > And the requirement is ability to automatically provide rpms > for all > future kernels. > > I imagine this dynamic-repository idea can be used with dkms > on the > server side. Because dkms can generate rpms on the server > on-demand > using the driver sources.(offcourse you would need > kernel-devel rpm on > the server side too). > > RP > > > > > Regards, > > > > Fajar > > _______________________________________________ > > Yum mailing list > > Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum > > _______________________________________________ > Yum mailing list > Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum > > > > > fuck offf I don't know where this came from or why but if you want to flame someone take it off list. If you cannot do that then you'll be removed from the list. -sv _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
