Re: build tools for EL6?
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 2:58 AM, Nicolas Chauvet <kwizart(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2011/12/13 Richard Shaw <hobbes1069(a)gmail.com>:
> At this point I'm not entirely sure we really need to use them. I've
> been able to build kmods for EL6 with a tweak to my spec file and
> building an EL6 package of kmodtool.
That's the whole point to have kmodtool improved to support their kABI
functionality.
I guess this is where I'm confused. What specifically needs to be
updated? From what Phil at elrepo told me, it's really not "their"
kABI, it's provided by RHEL. It guarantees a core set of kernel
symbols that will not change, and others that are unlikely to change
except on upgrades (6.1, 6.2, 6.3, etc.)
Once done, you will even be able to enable kmod support in RPM Fusion
for el.
I really hope everyone understand that rebuilding every kmod for a
given kernel doesn't work the same as fedora. Mostly because there is
different channel where one grab the kernel update from RHN and
another wait for CentOS/SL/whatever.
But isn't the point of the kABI so that you don't have to rebuild
kernel modules on a kernel update? We should be able to build the kmod
once regardless of kernel updates except for possible upgrades
mentioned above.
I would think that the more difficult part would be having multiple
kmods available depending on the EL version you're running, 6.0, 6.1,
6.2, etc.
Richard