[CentOS] applying kernel patch

[Carlos Santana]

I am a newbie and do not know as much in detail abt packages. However,
I noticed something strange while installing gcc. I started with bare
minimum 'no-base' install with a kickstart file, so I didn't have gcc
in it. Later, when I installed gcc the 'kernel-headers' packages was
marked to be updated to 2.6.18-128.1.10.el5 for dependency issues.

Here is a summary:
=============================================================================
 Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size
=============================================================================
Installing:
 gcc                     i386       4.1.2-44.el5     base              5.2 M
Updating:
 glibc                   i686       2.5-34           base              5.2 M
 glibc-common            i386       2.5-34           base               16 M
 libgcc                  i386       4.1.2-44.el5     base               94 k

Installing for dependencies:
 binutils                i386       2.17.50.0.6-9.el5  base              2.9 M
 cpp                     i386       4.1.2-44.el5     base              2.7 M
 glibc-devel             i386       2.5-34           base              2.0 M
 glibc-headers           i386       2.5-34           base              598 k
 kernel-headers          i386       2.6.18-128.1.10.el5  updates           917 k
 libgomp                 i386       4.3.2-7.el5      base               67 k


However, the kernel is 2.6.18-92.el5. The mismatch in kernel and
kernel-headers is confusing me. Any insights?

Thanks,
CS.


On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 5:55 PM, John R Pierce<pierce at hogranch.com> wrote:
> Carlos Santana wrote:
>> I am trying to build a Lustre file system over CentOS. The file system
>> server's kernel needs to be lustrized, however client can be installed
>> without altering kernel. I was struggling with client installation and
>> thought specific kernel requirement might be an issue. I am stil not
>> sure why is it failing though...
>> Anyway, to cut it short, needed for some dependency issues..
>>
>
> looks like Lustre has very specific kernel requirements, see
> http://wiki.lustre.org/index.php/Lustre_Support_Matrix
>
> eg, Lustre 1.8.0 -must- be run with kernel 2.6.18-92.1.17.el5 and not,
> for example, 2.6.18-92.1.18.el5
>
>
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