Hi all Here's the proposal we've already started discussing during our Edinburgh HEPiX discussion on Scientific Linux about packaging additional kernel modules in uniform way: The most widely adopted format seems to be the one from Fedora Guidelines: http://www.fedora.us/wiki/PackagingKernelModules it allows for easy automating of kernel and associated kernel-module-foo package(s) using apt-get (checked ;-)) and yum (read on a mailing list -> to be verified) Apparently 3rd party add-on package builders (http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/mega-merge.php) also seem to agree (more-or-less) on this way -see repo-coord archives for May:http://lists.atrpms.net/pipermail/repo-coord/2004-May/ (yes it is a flamewar running for couple of months now but calming down slowely : majority seems to support this option...) We at CERN currently packaged following in this format: kernel-module-bcm5700-kversion kernel-module-madwifi-kversion kernel-module-openafs-kversion kernel-module-xfs-kversion kernel-module-alsa-kversion This is quite nice as in order to install add-on module using apt I need to use only a command alike: apt-get install kernel-module-xfs-`uname -r` and the upgrade-kernel apt LUA script also handles upgrade of such packages along with kernel upgrade auto-magically. I think we could try to standardize on this packaging guideline for Scientific Linux too: what is your opinion ? (Most of these packages could go into SL contrib area as these are not really site specific -> but of course kernel dependent) Jarek [CERN Linux maintainer] __ ------------------------------------------------------- _ Jaroslaw_Polok ___________________ CERN - IT/ADC/LE _ _ http://home.cern.ch/~jpolok ___ tel_+41_22_767_1834 _ _____________________________________ +41_78_792_0795 _