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