[elrepo] Headers question

[Joe Henley]

Alan,

As always, your replies are swift and helpful.  Thanks!

But that means the reason I can't get the latest git version of the 
v4l-dvb drivers to build is _not_ because I can't load the headers. 
Which means I have to keep digging to figure out why....

Joe

Alan Bartlett wrote:
> On 20.03.2012 21:12, Joe Henley wrote:
> <snip>
>> I'm trying to get a newly purchased Hauppauge hd-pvr working in MythTV
>> so I need a very new hdpvr driver (part of linuxtv's v4l-dvb drivers).
>> Looks like I'm going to have to use the git version of those drivers
>> (because the hardware/firmware is so new).  I am able to install the
>> kernel-ml-devel files, but not the kernel-ml-headers.
>>
>> I get a yum error about the kernel-ml-headers-2.6.35-14.1.el5.elrepo
>> conflicting with the kernel-headers-2.6.18-308.1.1.el5 (which is my
>> "production" kernel).  So I can't load the ml header files.
> 
> That's correct. You don't need to have the kernel-ml-headers package
> installed because you are not rebuilding glibc and, thus, the entire
> OS.
> 
> To successfully build *any* package against *any* EL kernel (be it
> distro or ELRepo Project supplied), you only need to have the relevant
> kernel development package installed. Strictly speaking, you do not
> even need to have the *target* kernel installed . . .
> 
> Alan.
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