On Sat, 2007-10-06 at 13:18 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote:
On 10/6/07, William L. Maltby CentOS4Bill@triad.rr.com wrote:
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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
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Aha! Thanks for the clarification. Not being an admin in a server environment, I looked at it from my WS home-user POV.
-- Bill