[elrepo-devel] Two things about kversion

[Jon Masters]

On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 10:04 +0200, Farkas Levente wrote:
> On 04/20/2010 03:29 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I would like to start a discussion about a couple of things regarding
> > "kversion".
> >
> > (1) Which version of kernel should a kmod package be built against?

> i vote for the oldest possible version which is good enough to build it 
> and hardcode it into the spec file. otherwise it very difficult to build 
> in mock since in mock uname -r is NOT the chrooted env's kernel but the 
> host machine's release and it cause eg. for me a lots of headache 
> (building fedora kmod on a centos build farm is rather tricky thing).

I would also recommend building against the oldest kernel that you want
to be using.

Jon.