[elrepo] Announcement: EL5 kmod-arcmsr Testing Release [Version 1.20.00.15.rhel5]

[Alan Bartlett]

Announcing the release of kmod-arcmsr packages in the EL5
elrepo-testing repository:

http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-arcmsr

This package has been created as a result of an RFE:

http://elrepo.org/bugs/view.php?id=81

It provides an updated Areca driver, version 1.20.00.15.rhel5,
containing Red Hat patches which are not scheduled to be routinely
present until el5.7 and is kABI compatible with all kernels from 5.3
(kernel-2.6.18-128.el5) upwards.

It is built to depend upon the specific ABI provided by a range of
releases of the same variant of the Linux kernel and not on any one
specific build.

End user testing of this package (& subsequent feed-back) will be
appreciated and would also speed its eventual promotion to the main
repository.

NOTE: Due to the appearance of a bug in el5.5, *updating* of kmod
packages is broken with el5.5. To install this package, users of el5.5
are advised to perform the following. This will then update the
module-init-tools package (which has had an erroneous upstream patch
reverted):

yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=elrepo-testing install kmod-arcmsr

Thank you,

The ELRepo Team.