I'm currently attempting to package a kernel module that will be built
against many released kernel rpms. The question I have is what should
be set up in the spec file to make sure an RPM built against an i686
kernel RPM doesn't get installed on a machine with the athlon kernel RPM
installed?
Example:
Computer A has kernel-2.4.18-14.i686.rpm installed, User 1 attempts to
install gm-driver-2.0.11_2.4.18_14.athlon.rpm instead of
gm-driver-2.0.11_2.4.18_14.i686.rpm.
Is there a special syntax in the "Requires" section that will allow me
to force an arch type? Maybe something like:
Requires: kernel == 2.4.18-14:i686
Eventually I want to get to the point where I can use apt-get and yum to
automatically install the corresponding kernel module depending on what
version/arch are installed. I foresee something like this:
# rpm -q --queryformat '%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}.rpm\n' kernel{,-smp}
kernel-2.4.18-26.7.x.i686.rpm
kernel-smp-2.4.20-18.7.i686.rpm
# apt-get install gm gm-driver gm-driver-smp
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
gm-driver-2.4.18_26.7.x gm-driver-smp-2.4.20-18.7 gm-utils gm-doc
gm-devel
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gm-driver-2.4.18_26.7.x gm-driver-smp-2.4.20-18.7 gm-utils gm-doc
gm-devel gm gm-driver gm-driver-smp
0 packages upgraded, 8 newly installed, 0 removed and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 335kB of archives.
After unpacking 1.0MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
Get:1 http://internal redhat/8.0/i386 gm-driver-2.4.18_26.7.x 2.0.11 [20kB]
Get:1 http://internal redhat/8.0/i386 gm-driver-smp-2.4.20-18.7 2.0.11 [20kB]
Get:1 http://internal redhat/8.0/i386 gm-utils 2.0.11 [80kB]
Get:1 http://internal redhat/8.0/i386 gm-doc 2.0.11 [100kB]
Get:1 http://internal redhat/8.0/i386 gm-devel 2.0.11 [100kB]
Get:1 http://internal redhat/8.0/i386 gm 2.0.11 [5kB]
Get:1 http://internal redhat/8.0/i386 gm-driver 2.0.11 [5kB]
Get:1 http://internal redhat/8.0/i386 gm-driver-smp 2.0.11 [5kB]
Fetched 335kB in 1s (970kB/s)
Executing RPM (-Uvh)...
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:gm-driver-2.4.18_26.7.x ########################################### [ 12%]
2:gm-driver-smp-2.4.20-18.7 ########################################### [ 25%]
3:gm-utils ########################################### [ 37%]
4:gm-doc ########################################### [ 50%]
5:gm-devel ########################################### [ 62%]
6:gm ########################################### [ 75%]
7:gm-driver ########################################### [ 87%]
8:gm-driver-smp ########################################### [100%]
# rpm -q --queryformat '%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}.rpm\n' gm-driver-2.4.18_26.7.x gm-driver-smp-2.4.20-18.7
gm-driver-2.4.18_26.7.x.i686.rpm
gm-driver-smp-2.4.20-18.7.i686.rpm
Thanks,
Bryan
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Bryan Stillwell, Production Engineer Aspen Systems, Inc.
mailto:bryans@xxxxxxxxxx 3900 Youngfield Street
Tel: +01 303 431 4606 Wheat Ridge CO 80033, USA
Fax: +01 303 431 7196 http://www.aspsys.com
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