[OpenAFS] kmod-openafs versioning on RHEL5
Derrick Brashear
shadow@gmail.com
Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:38:17 -0500
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 7:33 PM, Darren Patterson
<darren.patterson@stanford.edu> wrote:
> Simon Wilkinson wrote:
> >
> > On 14 Feb 2008, at 00:49, Darren Patterson wrote:
> >
> >> After building new kmod packages for the latest RHEL5 kernel I
> >> discovered that rpm is very unhappy with the naming convention. Yum
> >> refuses to install the package claiming that
> >
> >> kmod-openafs-1.4.5-2.2.6.18_53.1.4.el5 is newer than
> >
> >> kmod-openafs-1.4.5-1.2.6.18_53.1.13.el5.
> >
> > If these are literally what you've got, then something odd has
> > happened. Note the leading '1' in the release string of the second RPM
> > name, compared to the 2 which leads the release of the first kernel
> > module.
> Yes. At some point there was an openafs-1.4.5-rhel4.2.src.rpm on the
> site which I downloaded and used to build packages. At some later
> point, after I had rebuilt several VM guests, that package was gone (and
> I didn't notice) and only a rhel4.1.src.rpm was present, which I
> subsequently used to build newer kmod packages which won't install.
>
> Will you be putting up 1.4.6 srpms?
You mean like:
http://www.openafs.org/dl/openafs/1.4.6/openafs-1.4.6-1.1.src.rpm
It's linked with the rest of the source from the release page.