akmods (nvidia) for EL?

[Orion Poplawski]

On 11/21/2012 02:56 PM, Nicolas Chauvet wrote:
> 2012/11/21 Orion Poplawski <orion at cora.nwra.com <mailto:orion at 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.

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