On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Brian J. Murrell <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11-11-29 03:51 PM, Jon Zhu wrote: >> Cool. BTW, is it possible to rebuild the Lustre client driver from source, > > Sure. > >> just like what's been described in following: >> http://wiki.whamcloud.com/display/PUB/Rebuilding+the+Lustre-client+rpms+for+a+new+kernel > > Well, not exactly. RPM != DEB. > >> If that's possible, where to grab the kernel source ****.src.deb? > > You don't. DEBs are packaged as source tarballs with a /debian > directory in them in which you typically do dpkg-buildpackage. But that > assumes a clean separation of modules and userspace, which the lustre > source does not have, unfortunately. > > So, to rebuild the DEB you grab the source tree (i.e. from git) or > tarball (and unpack it) and then run: > > $ configure [arguemnts] > $ make debs >
There is an open bug (http://jira.whamcloud.com/browse/LU-788) that means you may need to stick a 'make' between 'configure' and 'make debs' It would be great if you could confirm to this list or the bug; cheers, Richard -- [email protected] Whamcloud Inc. tel: +1 512 410 9612 _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
