On 11/21/2012 02:56 PM, Nicolas Chauvet wrote:
2012/11/21 Orion Poplawski <or...@cora.nwra.com <mailto:or...@cora.nwra.com>>:
> I've been happily using kmod-nvidia from elrepo for EL for a while now.
> However, to deal with some issues in the current EL6 kernels I've been using
> the kernel-lt kernel from elrepo, which is not compatible with the elrepo
> kmod-nvidia. For those situations it would be nice to have akmods
> available. Does this seem like a reasonable thing for rpmfusion to provide?
Hi Orion,
Yes it's perfectly reasonable to have akmod and even pre-built kmod-foo for EL.
The problem is that currently we do not implement kABI so we need to rebuild
the kernel for each new kernel. (which kABI would essentially avoid).
I don't have time to lead the work, but we need to rebase the tools
(akmod/kmodtool) into devel in order to get ready for later release (EL-7
eventually).
Nicolas (kwizart)
I'm happy to help out in any way including doing the builds if the needed
packages get branched. I've tested some builds locally with:
buildsys-build-rpmfusion-18-0.2.x86_64.rpm
buildsys-build-rpmfusion-kerneldevpkgs-current-18-0.2.x86_64.rpm
akmods-0.3.8-3.el6.noarch.rpm
kmodtool-1-18.el6.noarch.rpm
akmod-nvidia-304.64-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
With the following changes:
diff -u -r1.10 akmods.spec
--- akmods.spec 24 Nov 2011 17:07:00 -0000 1.10
+++ akmods.spec 21 Nov 2012 22:28:21 -0000
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
# we create a special user that used by akmods to build kmod packages
Requires(pre): shadow-utils
-%if %fedora <=16
+%if 0%{?fedora} <=16 || 0%{?rhel}
# for the akmods init script:
Requires(post): /sbin/chkconfig
Requires(preun): /sbin/chkconfig
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@
install -D -p -m 0755 %{SOURCE0} %{buildroot}%{_sbindir}/akmods
install -D -p -m 0755 %{SOURCE2} %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/akmodsbuild
install -D -p -m 0644 %{SOURCE3} %{buildroot}%{_mandir}/man1/akmodsbuild.1
-%if %fedora <=16
+%if 0%{?fedora} <=16 || 0%{?rhel}
install -D -p -m 0755 %{SOURCE4} %{buildroot}%{_initrddir}/akmods
%else
install -D -p -m 0644 %{SOURCE7} %{buildroot}%{_unitdir}/akmods.service
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@
-c "User is used by akmods to build akmod packages" akmods
%post
-%if %fedora <=16
+%if 0%{?fedora} <=16 || 0%{?rhel}
# add init script
/sbin/chkconfig --add akmods
# enable init script; users that installed akmods directly or indirectly
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@
%endif
%preun
-%if %fedora <=16
+%if 0%{?fedora} <=16 || 0%{?rhel}
if [ $1 = 0 ]; then
/sbin/chkconfig --del akmods
fi
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@
%attr(-,akmods,akmods) %{_localstatedir}/cache/akmods
%{_bindir}/akmodsbuild
%{_sbindir}/akmods
-%if %fedora <=16
+%if 0%{?fedora} <=16 || 0%{?rhel}
%{_initrddir}/akmods
%else
%{_unitdir}/akmods.service
I also hacked nvidia-kmod.spec so that akmod-nvidia wouldn't require
nvidia-kmod-common so I could keep using the elrepo nvdia driver package.
This seems to be working - the driver loads and X starts.
--
Orion Poplawski
Technical Manager 303-415-9701 x222
NWRA, Boulder Office FAX: 303-415-9702
3380 Mitchell Lane or...@nwra.com
Boulder, CO 80301 http://www.nwra.com
