On 10/6/07, William L. Maltby <CentOS4Bill at 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/BuildingKernelModules > > ameliorate 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