[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.