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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#0070C0'>I using the asterisk yum repository at <a
href="http://packages.asterisk.org/centos/5/current">http://packages.asterisk.org/centos/5/current</a>
to install a vanilla asterisk. All went well on my development server, which is
a fully up to date CentOS5 machine. But now I am trying to do the same with my production
server, which is an OEL5 machine with the 2.6.18-128.el5PAE kernel. This throws
a dependency error for kmod-dahdi-linux.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#0070C0'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#0070C0'>kmod-dahdi-linux-2.2.1-1_centos5.2.6.18_164.11.1.el5.i686 from
asterisk-current has depsolving problems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#0070C0'> --> Missing Dependency: kernel-i686 =
2.6.18-164.11.1.el5 is needed by package
kmod-dahdi-linux-2.2.1-1_centos5.2.6.18_164.11.1.el5.i686 (asterisk-current)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#0070C0'>Error: Missing Dependency: kernel-i686 = 2.6.18-164.11.1.el5 is
needed by package kmod-dahdi-linux-2.2.1-1_centos5.2.6.18_164.11.1.el5.i686
(asterisk-current)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#0070C0'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#0070C0'>Well I suppose I can’t expect there to be a kmod package
for every possible combination of dahdi version and kernel out there so I
suppose I shall have to build my own. I cannot change the kernel version on the
production server as it is out of my hands.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#0070C0'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#0070C0'>So I have been trying to use the source rpm. I tried using yum
to download it but the SRPMS directory is not at the same level as the RPMS
directory so yum cannot see it. Instead I used wget to download dahdi-linux-kmod-2.2.1-1_centos5.2.6.18_164.11.1.el5.src.rpm,
installed in a local build area and tried to build it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#0070C0'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#0070C0'>I installed the correct devel packages, that is both kernel-devel
and kernel-PAE-devel. To begin with I just tried <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#0070C0'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#0070C0'>rpmbuild --bb ~/localrpms/SPECS/dahdi-linux-kmod.spec<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#0070C0'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#0070C0'>but that fails as the spec file relies on the internally defined
kernel version<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#0070C0'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#0070C0'>error: Failed build dependencies:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#0070C0'> kernel-devel
= 2.6.18-164.11.1.el5 is needed by
dahdi-linux-kmod-2.2.1-1_centos5.2.6.18_164.11.1.el5.i386<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#0070C0'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#0070C0'>A brief inspection of the spec file suggested I could override
the kernel version<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#0070C0'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#0070C0'>uname -r<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#0070C0'>2.6.18-128.el5PAE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#0070C0'>rpmbuild --bb ~/localrpms/SPECS/dahdi-linux-kmod.spec -D
"kversion `uname -r`"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#0070C0'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#0070C0'>But this fails because by the time the kernel name gets passed
to the makefile the “PAE” has been lost:-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#0070C0'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#0070C0'>…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#0070C0'>~/localrpms/BUILD/dahdi-linux-kmod-2.2.1/_kmod_build_
~/localrpms/BUILD/dahdi-linux-kmod-2.2.1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#0070C0'>+ make KVERS=2.6.18-128.el5 modules<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#0070C0'>You do not appear to have the sources for the 2.6.18-128.el5
kernel installed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#0070C0'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#0070C0'>Further inspection and I tried to override the kernel variant
parameter with<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#0070C0'>rpmbuild --bb ~/localrpms/SPECS/dahdi-linux-kmod.spec -D
"kversion `uname -r`" -D "kvariants PAE"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#0070C0'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#0070C0'>This allows the RPM to build but when I try to install it I get <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#0070C0'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#0070C0'>error: Failed dependencies:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#0070C0'> kernel-i386
= 2.6.18-128.el5PAE is needed by
kmod-dahdi-linux-PAE-2.2.1-1_centos5.2.6.18_128.el5.i386<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#0070C0'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#0070C0'>Why “kernel-i386” when the kernel package I am using
is “kernel-PAE” and really this check should be using “uname –r”
to test the kernel version?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#0070C0'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#0070C0'>So I think there are parts of the spec file that are broken for
my needs. I would be happy help test any changes. In the mean time am I ok to
do a “—nodeps” install of the package I have built?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#0070C0'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:#0070C0'>Steve Hindmarch</span></b><span
style='color:#0070C0'><br>
<br>
</span><span style='color:#4F81BD'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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