Dear listmembers, yesterday I stumbled over an annoying feature of current packaging: assume you build a kernel - rpm (say: kernel-default-2.6.21-190.i586.rpm) that differs from the original openSUSE package. You can install that but now, you need a module to make a device work (say: ipw3945-kmp-1.2.0-5.24.src.rpm) and want to build the corresponding rpm, you will be told that you have to install the kernel-syms package for your kernel. Ok. Build the kernel - syms, but this won't work as you need to install *all* kernels to build the kernel-syms package. Carefully speaking this is not helpful. I would suggest having a kernel-syms package with each kernel. Ok, this would increase the number of rpm-packages somewhat, but it is really annoying to build and install 6 kernels if you need just one - because you have to create the appropriate kernel-syms package. And, given the rpm package management I highly prefer to use rpm's in favour of make and make install processes for the kernel and the modules. "Handcrafting" of the ipw module fails anyway if you do not know exactly what you're doing. Take care Dieter Jurzitza -- ________________________________________________ HARMAN BECKER AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS Dr.-Ing. Dieter Jurzitza Manager Hardware Systems System Development Industriegebiet Ittersbach Becker-Göring Str. 16 D-76307 Karlsbad / Germany Phone: +49 (0)7248 71-1577 Mobile: +49 0151 - 16 339 017 Fax: +49 (0)7248 71-1216 eMail: DJurzitza@harmanbecker.com Internet: http://www.becker.de ******************************************* Harman Becker Automotive Systems GmbH Geschaeftsfuehrung: Dr. Peter Geiselhart - Michael Mauser - William S. Palin - Edwin Summers - Regis Baudot Sitz der Gesellschaft: Karlsbad - Registergericht: Mannheim HRB 361395 ******************************************* Diese E-Mail enthaelt vertrauliche und/oder rechtlich geschuetzte Informationen. Wenn Sie nicht der richtige Adressat sind oder diese E-Mail irrtuemlich erhalten haben, informieren Sie bitte sofort den Absender und loeschen Sie diese Mail. Das unerlaubte Kopieren sowie die unbefugte Weitergabe dieser Mail ist nicht gestattet. This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and delete this e-mail. Any unauthorized copying, disclosure or distribution of the contents in this e-mail is strictly forbidden. ******************************************* --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org