UNC Linux Users Group

["Alan Hoyle" <alanh AT email.unc.edu>]

Would

rpm -ivh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/`uname -p`/openafs-kernel-1.4.1-`uname
-r`-`uname -p`.rpm

work in most cases?


On 7/26/06, Matthew Mauzy <mauzy AT unc.edu> wrote:
> Works on RHEL4 systems as well.  The resulting openafs-kernel rpm will be
> located in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i686 (assuming you built on a i686).
>
> Then to install:
>
> rpm -ivh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i686/openafs-kernel-smp-1.4.0-'uname
> -r'_1.i686.rpm
>
> --Matthew
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>
> --On Wednesday, July 26, 2006 10:34 AM -0400 Adam Constabaris
> <adamc AT unc.edu> wrote:
>
> > The problem this is designed to solve: you have an RPM-based system that
> > uses openafs, but you upgrade your kernel to a version that is not (yet)
> > included in the openafs.org openafs-kernel binary RPMS.
> >
> > This is designed to allow you to compile the kernel modules from the
> > SRPM from openafs.org; it doesn't address the rest of the configuration
> > issues, so it works best if you get openafs from openafs.org working,
> > and then reboot into your new kernel.
> >
> > I've only ever run this on Fedora Core 5!  I assume it would work on
> > other RedHat-related distros, and there's probably something .deb based
> > that does a similar trick.
> >
> > Note that since it uses the uname command, you'll need to be running the
> > target kernel at the time you execute the command.  You can, of course,
> > work your way around the problem by specifying the name of the targeted
> > kernel by hand, but this method seems more error-resistant.
> >
> ># rpmbuild --rebuild --target=`uname -m` openafs-1.4.1-fc5.1.src.rpm
> >
> ># rpm -ivh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/[arch]/openafs-kernel-1.4.1-[kernel
> > version]-[arch].rpm
> >
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