[Lustre-discuss] Additional RPMs for older kernels

[Andreas Dilger]

On Mar 31, 2009  13:25 -0400, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 16:57 -0700, Jordan Mendler wrote:
> > In particular I am looking of lustre client modules for 1.6.7  
> > for a 2.6.9-55.0.2 (centos/rhel 4.5) kernel.
> 
> You will, in all likelihood have to build those yourself.
> 
> > If not, is there a way to build RPMs for just the kernel modules? It  
> > is my impression that 'make RPMs' builds RPMs for everything.
> 
> I'm not sure that I've ever tried it but you can try seeing if the
> "--disable-utils" configure flag will be honoured by "make rpms".  I
> tend to doubt it though and make rpms will build the utils RPM as well.
> 
> Adding a --without utils rpm build option to the spec would be trivial.
> Patches will be happily accepted.  :-)

That said, the extra effort to do this is probably not worthwhile,
compared to just not installing the RPMs you don't want.  It's not
like the other RPMs will take a huge amount of time.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.