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

[Phil Perry]

On 26/05/11 15:46, rshaw1 at umbc.edu wrote:
> 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
>

Hi Ray,

%{kmod_name}-%{version}.tar.bz2 is just a tarball (.tar.bz2) of the two 
nvidia .run files.

If you're rebuilding for 173.14.30 then you'll want to create the 
tarball nvidia-173xx-173.14.30.tar.bz2 from the two .run files placed in 
a dir named nvidia-173xx-173.14.30, and put the resulting tarball in 
your SOURCES dir.

Alternatively, look how we now handle the sources in the latest 270.xx 
series kmod package which is probably an easier approach.

I had looked at updating the legacy series drivers to the latest 
release, but AFAIK the only updates were to support later Xorg versions, 
something irrelevant to EL5 users.

Regards,

Phil