[elrepo-devel] why it's not working for me?

[Phil Perry]

Farkas Levente wrote:
> On 09/01/2009 08:20 PM, Phil Perry wrote:
>>
>> So in this situation it would appear the correct course of action would
>> be for us to file a bug report requesting the addition of
>> ksym(platform_device_add_data) to the [rhel5_drivers_base_ga] whitelist
>> thus fixing the issue for this (these) driver(s).
>>
>> However, doing so will not fix the issue for past kernels, only those
>> going forward.
> 
> but as rhel/centos/.. kernel _never_ provide any ksym(...) it's be 
> better to remove those ksym requirements anyway since those kmod 
> packages never can be installed clearly...
> so imho probably add to rhel5_drivers_base_ga _and_ remove ksym req from 
> find-requires.ksyms would be the best solution.
> 

I've just had an email conversation with Jon Masters to ask his advice 
on the subject, and he is keen for us to file bug reports with Red Hat 
for any missing symbols and they will get them included into the kABI 
whitelist. Given the imminent release of 5.4, this is now unlikely to 
happen before 5.5. In hindsight, I probably should have copied that 
conversation to this list but I didn't - sorry.

In the meantime all we can do is continue to build without the requires.

Do you have a list of all packages that fail, and the symbols they fail on?

I'm aware of the 3 packages you reported in this thread, kmod-nvidia and 
kmod-video4linux, that all fail on missing symbols (but not what the 
symbols are). What we need to do is rebuild everything as normal 
*without* the find-requires.ksyms hack to get a list of missing symbols 
to report upstream. I'm just wondering how much of that work you may 
have already done (or would like to assist with)?