On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 08:23:35AM -0500, Bill Mills-Curran wrote:

I've dabbled in making rpm's from tar distributions a bit -- just enough to get a flavor of rpm building. One of the more challenging (frustrating?) rpm tasks is building an rpm for a kernel module. (Or maybe the tar/make package I'm starting from is just not well-designed.) Since the build can be kernel-specific, it's not even clear if building binary rpm's is worth it. Maybe a better idea is to concentrate on making the source rpm easily buildable so that the end user can generate an installation-specific binary rpm and get the benefit of rpm's over tar/make installations. Or, maybe it's not worth rpm's at all for kernel modules.

Anyone have opinions on this?

A good example of such an RPM is the nvidea drivers. They release a whole slew of different binary ones for different releases of different distros, plus a src rpm that will build to your particular kernel. As long as you have the kernel-source rpm installed that matches the kernel you're running, it works great. http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=linux_display_ia32_1.0-4191 -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu WPI Network Engineer