On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 15:18 -0400, Bret Hammond wrote: > > A spec file to allow the > > generation of both the lustre patched kernel and kernel-source rpms and/or > > the kernel-devel rpms would come in handy. > > We do supply a kernel-source rpm with every release. For example, for > 1.4.11: > > kernel-smp-2.6.9-55.EL_lustre_1.4.11.x86_64.rpm > kernel-source-2.6.9-55.EL_lustre_1.4.11.x86_64.rpm > lustre-1.4.11-2.6.9_55.EL_lustre_1.4.11smp.x86_64.rpm > lustre-debuginfo-1.4.11-2.6.9_55.EL_lustre_1.4.11smp.x86_64.rpm > lustre-modules-1.4.11-2.6.9_55.EL_lustre_1.4.11smp.x86_64.rpm > lustre-source-1.4.11-2.6.9_55.EL_lustre_1.4.11smp.x86_64.rpm > lustre-tests-1.4.11-2.6.9_55.EL_lustre_1.4.11smp.x86_64.rpm > > Will a kernel-source not be a sufficient substitute for a kernel-devel > package?
A kernel-source rpm is fine, the problem comes into play when a kernel patch is required. The instructions contained in the lustre operations manual (for 1.4.x at least), for building custom lustre/kernel rpms, leave you short a lustre-source rpm in the end. They also leave you short an initrd, if I recall correctly, which leads me to the conclusion that some other build magic is happening behind the scenes at CFS. I understand if exposing that process is undesirable from a support standpoint. It would just make life a tad easier from this side to have access to the srpm or the spec file used to generate the kernel rpms. > > Perhaps a short term solution would be to have our kernel-source package > provide (in RPM Provides: nomenclature) a "kernel-devel" package to > satisfy other RPMs that may Require: kernel-devel. I'm not entirely > sure this is doable, just throwing it out as a possible solution. We need to build Myrinet drivers from time to time, which works using the CFS supplied kernel-source rpm. > > Cheers, > b. Thanks, Bret > > > _______________________________________________ > Lustre-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.clusterfs.com/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
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