On 3/12/06, Eduardo Grosclaude <eduardo.grosclaude at gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, I have this cheap network card which insists on me compiling its own > sundance.ko module every time I update my kernel release. I had the poor > idea to leave nightly yum service enabled on this remote server, only to > find my network was gone at the following reboot. Had to go there, figure > out that kernel stuff is carefully avoided by up2date, but not so by yum > service, and rebuild. > Compiling and installing is just a matter of some simple commands, and in > the meantime I have disabled yum service. But I was wondering if there is > already some provision to automate building kernel version dependent > modules, or whatever. Should I hook on yum? > Thank you in advance! Kernel modules are an interesting yum dilemma. I'd recommend just putting exclude=kernel* in your repo file if you're going to run the nightly updates. And then update the kernel and your driver on your own schedule after the announcement of an update. -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety'' Benjamin Franklin 1775