On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 3:22 PM, markaoki <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Yes, it produced ten (10) various *_test.el5.i686.rpms, in the /RPMS/i686
>  directory, as expected.

Yes.  And one of them is kernel-devel-2.6.18-8.1.3_test.el5.i686.rpm.
You have to *install* it by (after cd to that directory):

rpm install -ivh kernel-devel-2.6.18-8.1.3_test.el5.i686.rpm

This creates the correct symbolic link in /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.1.3_test.el5/

>  The symlink was created by the rpm build & install process...I did not
>  create it.
>
>  That symlink is located in /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.1.3_test.el5 and is a link
>  to
>  ../../../usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-8.1.3_test.el5-i686, as expected.
>
>  The problem is I have nothing named 2.6.18-8.1.3_test.el5-i686 in my RPM
>  build tree to copy to /usr/src/kernels/

You do not manually copy anything.  yum install kernel-devel does the job.

>  I only have BUILD/kernel-2.6.18/linux-2.6.18.i686

This is normal and expected.

>  uname -r gives me: 2.6.18-8.1.3_test.el5
>
>  I have:
>
> kernel-devel-2.6.18-8.1.3.el5.i686 "Development package for developing
>  kernel modules to match the kernel".
>
>  and
>
>  kernel-headers-2.6.18-8.1.3.el5.i386 "Header files for the Linux kernel for
>  use by glibc"
>
>  installed on my machine.
>  Is this not the 'kernel-devel' that you refer to?
>  Or, perhaps I am missing something?

Right. You are missing kernel-devel-2.6.18-8.1.3_test.el5.i686

>  Also, thanks for looking at my problem.
>  I hope I can also help eventually : )

I am sure you will soon. :-)

Akemi

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