[CentOS] kABI-tracking kmod-xfs for CentOS-4 (Was: Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem)

Wed Jun 17 21:54:12 UTC 2009
Shad L. Lords <slords at lordsfam.net>

Tru Huynh wrote:
>> I vaguely remember that you were planning on releasing this on or
>> around June 15 (?).  Maybe it's time?  I don't think we are getting
>> any more response here.
> 
> All the CentOS-4 kmod-xfs have now been promoted to the extras/centosplus
> repositories.

To call these packages kABI tracking is misleading.  They are kernel 
version independent but they don't track the kABI like the el5 packages 
do.  Notice the difference below.

[root at server 4.7]# rpm -qp --requires kmod-xfs-0.4-2.el4.i686.rpm
rpmlib(VersionedDependencies) <= 3.0.3-1
/sbin/depmod
/sbin/depmod
module-init-tools >= 3.1-0.pre5.3.10
/bin/sh
/bin/sh
/bin/sh
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1



[root at server 5.3]# rpm -qp --requires kmod-xfs-0.4-2.i686.rpm
rpmlib(VersionedDependencies) <= 3.0.3-1
/sbin/depmod
/sbin/depmod
/bin/sh
/bin/sh
/bin/sh
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
kernel(rhel5_fs_ga) = b96eba087460900b3aa6064930cf23d58908d4d6
kernel(rhel5_mm_ga) = 09f63dfab81bba7e01a2bf693f5ce125db466051
kernel(rhel5_vmlinux_ga) = 2bf444396ff7060828059d7a5379435140aee48a
kernel(rhel5_kernel_ga) = 2cd142708e2d573b2de522df5df87aaeb7c1d298
kernel(rhel5_lib_ga) = 088a6b77cde4f82c65b0d7f34802cfa41d209328
kernel(rhel5_kernel_module_ga) = 1b051ce57d6b18fdf071786f6f7296d3d0ab28f9
kernel(rhel5_block_ga) = a42055e630b73ddd7254fc6963814e16913852e5
kernel(rhel5_init_ga) = e18da0926c862eaed98f20f312403ea33c944cbd
kernel(rhel5_kernel_power_ga) = 3c2c37d553ebecf99e6d147387f3dd4b5f5df7b7
kernel(rhel5_fs_proc_ga) = 6c027eb4cc65e0d557f1148fdba87f41cff17d2c
kernel(rhel5_drivers_xen_core_ga) = 5308a7766723999bbea99a33dde1bbb76fee41ca
kernel(rhel5_arch_i386_kernel_ga) = d1c30e0a553e9225eebd1b866e0d3ed7a6154147
kernel(rhel5_arch_i386_mm_ga) = 0164a9bd3f1d0935cd3dcb734785179f25c1a064
kernel(rhel5_fs_partitions_ga) = 1fab1cfd92c6a68656412e03aa5c2d03adac0971
kernel(rhel5_security_ga) = f89a464b3af98aaee0f0fda10a8ea9bfc9d0ae99