On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Fabian Arrotin <fabian.arrotin at arrfab.net> wrote: > Akemi Yagi wrote: >> >> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Fabian Arrotin >> <fabian.arrotin at 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