Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:

On Monday, 24 November 2008 9:39:34 Dave Plater wrote:

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Hi, I noticed that the kernel-syms packages in both 32 and 64 bit factory no longer had the same version as the kernel-source packages.

This is a bug; they should have the same versions.

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I am able to compile nvidia drivers without the upgrade of kernel-syms, is the kernel-syms package now obsolete and am I able to remove it?

It depends. The kernel-syms package contains the collected modversion reference files for all kernel-$flavor packages, and each of the kernel-$flavor packages contains its own modversion reference files as well. This means that for building kernel-$flavor modules you need the appropriate kernel-source package, and either kernel-syms or kernel-$flavor.

Generally, when only building modules for the installed kernel, kernel-syms is not needed.

We often build KMPs for all available kernel flavors, and we use kernel-syms for that instead of installing all kernel-$flavor packages because it is much smaller.

Andreas

Thanks for the info. If the versions are still out of sync tomorrow, I will file a bug report. Strange thing is kernel-syms were a dependency of kernel source not so long ago whereas I tried zypper rm kernel-syms with no complaints. Regards Dave P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+help@opensuse.org