[elrepo-devel] Rebuilding nvidia-173xx-kmod source RPMs

[rshaw1 at umbc.edu]

I've had good success using the nvidia-x11-drv and nvidia-kmod-270 RPMs to
replace our previous method of providing nvidia drivers to Linux
workstations.  We prefer to build/rebuild our own RPMs, and have a
requirement for a custom kernel, so I've been building these from the
source RPMs you provide.

We also have a handful of machines that require the legacy drivers, so I'm
attempting to build 173 drivers from those source RPMs (both due to
preference, and because I'd like to use 173.14.30).  Building the X11 one
is fine, but I'm confused by the kmod .spec's requirement for
"%{kmod_name}-%{version}.tar.bz2".  Where should I be getting this
tarball?  I imagine it to be an archive of the kernel module source, but
attempting to create this myself doesn't seem to satisfy the build
process.

Thanks,

--Ray