On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Fabian Arrotin fabian.arrotin@arrfab.net wrote:
Akemi Yagi wrote:
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Fabian Arrotin fabian.arrotin@arrfab.net wrote:
While i was talking with someone in #centos about drbd, we saw that there was no kmod-drbd82 (nor kmod-drbd) package for the latest and current 5.2 kernel. In fact the last one was for 2.6.18-92.1.10 ...
Actually, the latest version is kmod-drbd-8.0.13-2 (and kmod-drbd82-8.2.6-2). It uses weak-updates, so...
So what ? ;-) Simple example : i'm a new sysadmin and i've recently installed a clean CentOS 5.2 on which i've directly made updates. So (at this time) i'm running with kernel-2.6.18-92.1.18. Two days after i'm interested in installing kmod-drbd82 and , surprise, there is not kmod-drbd82-`uname -r` available in the centos extras repo .. weak-updates is 'invoked' after each kernel update so that kmod installed (and correctly located in the 'extras' directory) will be linked for the newly installed kernel. But that will not solve the problem for people only wanting to start using a specific kmod with the latest kernel already installed .. or am i missing the point ?
Weak-updates, when invoked, will look for *all* kABI compatible kernels on a given system and create a symlink for each one of them. (is my understanding)
Akemi