[Lustre-discuss] rpm kernel-devel package

[Brian J. Murrell]

On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 12:57 -0400, Brock Palen wrote:
> On the download site, I am trying to figure out which rpm i need to  
> download that would match the 'kernel-devel'  equivilent for lustre.
> 
> I have a need to build the sun multipath driver against that kernel  
> for our new MDS's  machines, but it is not very obvious if I need:
> 
>   lustre-source-1.6.5.1-2.6.9_67.0.7.EL_lustre.1.6.5.1smp.x86_64.rpm

No.  This is the lustre source tree.

> Or:
> 
>   kernel-lustre-source-2.6.9-67.0.7.EL_lustre.1.6.5.1.x86_64.rpm

Yes, this is what you want.

> Is there a reason why there is not just a normal:
> kernel-lustre-smp-devel
> 
> Just like RedHat/SLES provides?

Because we don't use the RHEL kernel build process.  We have our own
kernel .spec.  That could change in the future though.  See bug 16312.

b.

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