I've created some RPM packages for OpenAFS, which involves a bunch of libraries and commands and so on, some configuration, and a kernel module. Right now, I have an 'openafs-client' package which includes the kernel modules for all of the kernels I build against. (Currently, the source package actually contains copies of each required version of the kernel headers -- I heard a rumor of a switch to having 'kernel-devel' packages, which would remove this need. Anyway....) It would be nicer, however, to put each kernel module in its own subpackage -- openafs-kernel-2.6.9.1-1.3.74-1, or something. So, question one: I'd _like_ to generate multiple kernel subpackages based on a list of numbers, without copying and pasting over and over and in one simple invocation of rpmbuild -ba. Is there a clever trick for doing this? Also, the current scheme doesn't actually use RPM dependencies at all for the kernel module -- it just happens to all work if you have a new enough version of the openafs-client for the kernel you've got installed. If I have separate kernel module packages, I would like to be able to express: If you have openafs-v.v.v-r.r installed, and you have kernel-x.x.x-y.y, openafs-kernel-x.x.x-y.y-v.v.v-r.r is required. If you don't have openafs installed, no openafs-kernel packages are needed. Ideally, without changing the kernel package at all. And, if another, different-versioned kernel is installed, openafs-kernel packages which don't match should ignore it and hope a version which does match exists. (If there isn't an openafs-kernel package which provides the needed module, there should be an error, and dependency solvers would be able to go out and find what is missing.) Any suggestions? I _know_ some of you are more clever than me. Or perhaps even better, not so clever and more wise. :) -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
