akmods for EL-5?

[Jarod Wilson]

On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 09:03 -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
> I need to build my akmod for EL-5.  Will there be a port of akmods stuff to 
> EL-5?
> 
> I tried rebuild srpms, got as far as:
> 
> rpmbuild --rebuild --target i686 buildsys-build-rpmfusion-9.1-10.lvn9.src.rpm
> Installing buildsys-build-rpmfusion-9.1-10.lvn9.src.rpm
> ...
> Building target platforms: i686
> Building for target i686
> error: Failed build dependencies:
>         kernel-devel-uname-r = 2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i686 is needed by buildsys-
> build-rpmfusion-9.1-10.nb.i686
>         kernel-devel-uname-r = 2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i686.PAE is needed by 
> buildsys-build-rpmfusion-9.1-10.nb.i686
>         kernel-devel-uname-r = 2.6.25.3-2.fc9.i686.xen is needed by buildsys-
> build-rpmfusion-9.1-10.nb.i686

As mentioned, you need to tell it the kernel version you actually want
to build for, but on top of that, the kernel-uname-r Provides: don't
exist in the RHEL5 kernel, only in recent Fedora kernels, so some tweaks
are needed there as well.


-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com