[elrepo-devel] trouble installing kernel.org kernel

[Manuel Wolfshant]

On 01/04/2011 07:47 PM, Steve Clark wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a box that has 2 BCM5906M ethernet ports. When I do
> an ifconfig of either of the ports the kernel panics.
> I have tested the current Centos kernel, 2.6.35.10-ml and 2.6.36-2-ml 
> all with the same results.
> So I decided to build the latest kernel.org kernel from linus' git tree.
> I built it on F14 because it is a q6600 system - target is a Via C7 at 
> 1ghz.
>
> I copied the config file from 2.6.36-ml and did a make oldconfig
> and then a make -j4 rpm.
> When I try to do the install I get the following about rpmlib(...) 
> messages that I have
> not been able to find anything definitive on the web after googling 
> for over an hour.
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Linux Z1010.netwolves.com 2.6.36-2.el5.elrepo #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Dec 
> 10 09:28:56 EST 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
>
> [root at Z1010 ~]# rpm -Uvh kernel-2.6.37rc8+-1.i386.rpm
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         rpmlib(FileDigests) <= 4.6.0-1 is needed by 
> kernel-2.6.37rc8+-1.i386
>         rpmlib(PayloadIsXz) <= 5.2-1 is needed by kernel-2.6.37rc8+-1.i386
fedora uses a new compression algorithm for the content of rpms. maybe 
the advice from http://ns3.spinics.net/lists/rpm/msg06679.html helps