Saket, IMO, explore the option of kABI and/or DKMS. http://people.redhat.com/jcm/el6/dup/docs/dup_book.pdf http://linux.dell.com/dkms/dkms-ols2004.pdf HTH On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Saket Sinha <saket.sinha89@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > We have a rpm which installs a linux kernel driver. Now this > driver has some kernel-level dependencies especially Development Tools > (kernel-headers etc) such that they depend on running kernel version. > > Now in the rpm we provide drivers for different kernel versions since > the user can update the kernel. In the rpm's SPEC file, we match the > running kernel version with our driver for that particular version and > install it. > > If the user has updated its kernel to such a version whose driver is > not present in the RPM, the installation fails. We tell user in the > error message to update the kernel to a supported version. > > Now this is very cumbersome and we plan to replace it with installing > a yum plugin through our rpm which allows user to update the kernel > level dependencies. > > Is this a right approach? > > Regards, > Saket Sinha > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies -- easy is right begin right and you're easy continue easy and you're right the right way to go easy is to forget the right way and forget that the going is easy.... _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
