On 10/6/07, William L. Maltby CentOS4Bill@triad.rr.com wrote:
I believe they are up-to-date now. My understanding is that there is some delay after a new kernel comes out, but it should not be more than a few days. But we have to remember that the whole CentOS project is based on voluntary work by both CentOS team members and the community.
Would not the dkms facility, as described here
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BuildingKernelModulesameliorate version problems? I'm not sure, but it seems to be useful from my reading.
dkms is useful for automating rebuilding kernel modules upon booting a new kernel. RPMForge offers a number of dkms-based modules (like the one for the nvidia driver). dkms is, however, not a supported/preferred method by CentOS (kmod is). Among other things, it requires gcc which is not favored in the server environment (so I understand). In this particular case, drbd is provided as SRPMS, and CentOS simply rebuilds from them.
Akemi