Mauro Gatti wrote:
Hi all, I am running CentOS 5.3 under xen on a VPS machine (so I have a limited control on the machine) I am playing with openswan and KLIPS and I need to build the ipsec.ko kernel module. I would need to download kernel source but I am really confused about what source I have to get.
uname -r tells: 2.6.18-128.7.1.el5xen
Just for the record, that is the kernel from Centos 5.4/ updates ( and it is a good thing that you use it)
ls /lib/modules tells: ls /lib/modules 2.6.18-128.7.1.el5xen 2.6.18-164.2.1.el5 2.6.18-164.6.1.el5 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5xen
I have no sources in /usr/src/kernels
Is there a source code named "2.6.18-128.7.1.el5xen" which I can download or should I install kernel-devel source using yum?
the package is called kernel-xen-devel (to be in sync with kernel-xen which you are using)
If I used yum I would download 2.6.30.9...
You would not. There is no 2.6.30 in the Centos repositories
yum info kernel-devel Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile Available Packages Name : kernel-devel Arch : i686 Version : 2.6.18 Release : 164.6.1.el5 Size : 5.2 M Repo : updates Summary : Development package for building kernel modules to match the kernel. URL : http://www.kernel.org/ License : GPLv2 Description: This package provides kernel headers and makefiles sufficient to build modules : against the kernel package.
and kernel.org has only source code from 2.6.18.1 to 2.6.18.8
you should not look at the stock kernels when using centos.