Re: Building an rpm for a kernel version

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Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 09:37:41 +0100
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>

On 8/24/05, Paul Howarth <paul@city-fan.org> wrote:
> Dan Track wrote:
> > Would anyone know what the macro is to define which kernel version is
> > being run. Basically I want to build a module but I need the
> > kernel-source to be the same as the currently installed and running
> > kernel. I put in a "BuildPreReq: kernel-source" entry but it I can't
> > verify whether the currently installed kernel-source version is the
> > same as the currently running kernel version.
>
> It'll be very difficult to do this with any dgree of portability. For
> starters, there is no kernel-source package after FC2 (for FC3 you
> probably just want a "kernel" dep, and for FC4 "kernel-devel"). Second,
> the naming convention for SMP kernel RPMs means that just doing
> something like "BuildRequires: kernel-source-%(uname -r)" won't work for
> people running SMP kernels.

Hi Paul

Thanks for the info that was quite valuable.

Cheers
Dan

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