Re: Dynamic yum respositories?

On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 00:12 -0700, jak two renegade wrote:
> 
> 
> Ram Pai <[email protected]> wrote: 
>         On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 09:13 +0700, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:
>         > Ram Pai wrote:
>         > > Hi,
>         > >
>         > > I have this unique problem. I am planning on providing
>         through yum
>         > > repositories, driver rpms for different versions of the
>         distro kernel.
>         > > As and when new kernel is available and installed by the
>         user, the
>         > > corresponding rpm for the driver is automatically made
>         available in the
>         > > repositories. 
>         > Although Michael's response to pass kernel version to yum is
>         > interesting, I believe the aproach you're looking for
>         requires that the
>         > particular kernel version (or to be accurate, the
>         kernel-devel package
>         > incase of RHEL) is also installed on the yum server.
>         
>         
>         Yes. the kernel-devel rpm has to be made available on the
>         server side
>         along with cgi-scripts that can do the magic of generating new
>         rpms on 
>         demand.
>         
>         > Plus, some srpms only builds driver for the current running
>         kernel by
>         > default, so you might need to tweak that as well.
>         >
>         > Have you take a look at dkms, also another DELL project,
>         instead?
>         > http://linux.dell.com/projects.shtml
>         > 
>         > dkms will allow clients to build drivers for new kernels
>         dynamically,
>         > since when the new kernel boots dkms_autoinstaller will
>         create the
>         > appropriate driver for it. Converting an srpm to dkms rpm is
>         actually
>         > quite easy. I've managed to create dkms rpms for qlogic HBA
>         driver
>         > (v8.01.07) and RHEL5's gfs (v0.1.16) the same day I found
>         out about dkms.
>         > 
>         > This should solve most driver problems. For qlogic HBA (or
>         any scsi
>         > driver, I think), you need to reboot twice, as it will also
>         update
>         > initrd which will only be used on the next reboot.
>         
>         True. But DKMS solves a different set of problems. In my case
>         I dont
>         have source rpms, but only binary drivers packaged in rpms in
>         a
>         repository.
>         And the requirement is ability to automatically provide rpms
>         for all
>         future kernels.
>         
>         I imagine this dynamic-repository idea can be used with dkms
>         on the
>         server side. Because dkms can generate rpms on the server
>         on-demand
>         using the driver sources.(offcourse you would need
>         kernel-devel rpm on
>         the server side too).
>         
>         RP
>         
>         > 
>         > Regards,
>         > 
>         > Fajar
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