Matt Lawrence wrote:
On Wed, 6 Aug 2008, Joe Landman wrote:
Advantage of modules is you can upgrade them without upgrading the
kernel. Go ahead, build in that e1000 driver. I dare yah... :(
More to the point it does give some good flexibility for end users
with a need to keep the core "separate" from the drivers for maintenance.
Initrd is subtle and quick to anger. One must use burnt offerings to
placate the spirits of initrd.
Ok, I am trying to follow your advice. However, "make rpm" does not
generate a package that includes initrd or updates to /etc/grub.conf. I
I update these by hand/script. The mkinitrd isn't too painful. I have
it on a machine at the lab (which happens to be off now, and I am at
home). Will put that out in the morning. The grub update is fairly simple.
have started looking at how to make that work, but the 9K lines of spec
file for the CentOS kernel rpm are rather daunting.
Hmmm... I normally recommend avoiding their spec file unless you want to
use only their kernel and do minor tweaks from there.
This said, I really recommend using
make binrpm-pkg
to generate the kernel/modules RPM and SRPM. Then the grub update and
the mkinitrd can be scripted. If you are daring, you can include those
scripts in the %post sections of the generated spec file (the make
binrpm-pkg will generate a spec file for you).
Since y'all have obviously been dealing with these sorts of problems
longer than I have, I could really use some help here.
I'll be in the office tomorrow with the machines, I can send you the
exact mkinitrd line. Bug me offline if you have a baseline kernel you
want to get started with and we can walk our way through this.
Joe
-- Matt
It's not what I know that counts.
It's what I can remember in time to use.
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