On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Darrell May wrote:

>
> Charlie Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> >    STEP2:  Get this rpm from me:
> >
> >    kernel-headers-2.2.19-7.0.8.noarch.rpm
> >
> >    NOTE: _DO_NOT_ use a kernel-headers rpm from any other source
> >
> > Where does this RPM come from, and why shouldn't we get it from anywhere
> > else?
>
> Ok, good point to ask Charlie.
>
> One of the rpms (I can't remember which one) had a dependency on
> kernel-headers.  However I could not find an actual
> kernel-headers-2.2.19-7.0.8 rpm.

For reasons I have never managed to fathom, RedHat around 7.0 stopped
unbundling the headers and source RPMs. You only get the headers if you
installed the (huge) kernel source RPM.

> I tried using --nodeps which of course worked to install the rpm but then
> I found things did not work correctly compiling and using the make
> command.
>
> I dove deeper and found that a key link was required for everything to
> work smoothly that the kernel-headers rpm provided.  Since the actual
> kernel headers where installed from kernel-source-2.2.19-7.0.8.i386.rpm I
> decided to fix this situation by building a 'dummy'
> kernel-headers-2.2.19-7.0.8.noarch.rpm.  This achieves two purposes.  It
> solves the dependency issue as the rpm shows that kernel-headers is
> installed and creates the missing link.

OK, so you are saying that your kernel-headers RPM only contains a
symlink.

> Might be a brute force solution but works like a charm.

Well, so far, for you. I can envision this causing some problems.

> And remember, if you were interested in peaking into the rpm yourself,
> the source files for all my contribs may be found here:
>
> http://myezserver.com/downloads/mitel/

I still can't find any links to this URL anywhere on your web site. [Note,
I do not and will not enable Java and Javascript in my browser.]

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