* Basil Chupin [01-08-19 20:41]:

I use the kernel from .../Kernel:/stable/standard/.

Just now I upgraded all the kernel-default files in Leap 15.0 (I manually compile the nVidia driver) and found that while the file kernel-syms rpm was a 1.5MiB download only 345BYTES were unpacked and installed.

I haven't yet upgraded Tumbleweed or Leap 15.1 but there I can see that the kernel-syms file (4.20.0-3.1) is also installed as 345Bytes big.

Looking inside the rpm file, what one sees is as per the attached.

What is the correct size of kernel-sysm file, anyone?

why do you need kernel-syms? I have been compling nvidia drivers for many years and have not ever installed kernel-syms, only: kernel-* (default) kernel-default-devel kernel-devel kernel-firmware kernel-macros for Tw and Leap* -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org

On Wednesday, 9 January 2019 2:40 Basil Chupin wrote:

Just now I upgraded all the kernel-default files in Leap 15.0 (I manually compile the nVidia driver) and found that while the file kernel-syms rpm was a 1.5MiB download only 345BYTES were unpacked and installed. I haven't yet upgraded Tumbleweed or Leap 15.1 but there I can see that the kernel-syms file (4.20.0-3.1) is also installed as 345Bytes big.

Looking inside the rpm file, what one sees is as per the attached.

If you went one step further and checked what is in those 345 bytes, you wouldn't need to ask. :-) The kernel-syms package contains only a README file explaining its purpose. The important part are its dependencies: it requires kernel-devel and kernel-*-devel for all flavors for which we build KMPs by default. You never really need it, it's just a simple way to get devel packages for all standard kernel flavors. If you only need to build an external module against e.g. kernel-default, you are fine with kernel-devel, kernel-default-devel and kernel-macros (which will be installed automatically as kernel-devel depends on it). Michal Kubecek -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org