[elrepo-devel] trouble installing kernel.org kernel

[Steve Clark]

On 01/04/2011 05:44 PM, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
> 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.
>    
Thanks, I wonder what you set for the PayloadIsXz to be backward compatible?

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