FC3 Up2date "custom kernel"

[Nicholas Comino]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Howarth" <paul at city-fan.org>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 7:58 PM
Subject: Re: FC3 Up2date "custom kernel"


> On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 19:14 +1100, Nicholas Comino wrote:
>> I've updated the kernel to 2.6.10 previously as part of installing
>> additional drivers required for networking. With updates, I don't know
>> enough to be particularly selective, I've been working through a few each
>> day with a view to getting almost all installed or ignored. I'm stuck at 
>> the
>> update for 'hal' with the following error:
>>
>> "There was a package dependency problem...
>> hal-0.4.7-1.FC3     requires kernel >=2.6.10"
>>
>> I don't think I really need that particular update, solving this is more 
>> a
>> learning and avoiding the issue in future. Previously I've been told not 
>> to
>> worry about custom kernel warning in up2date. But can I revert to the rpm
>> version of kernel2.6.10 (using up2date) without losing the additional
>> indispensable networking drivers? It could be I'm misunderstanding the
>> problem entirely.
>
> The dependency problem you're having is because the RPM database doesn't
> know that you're using a 2.6.10 kernel, because presumably you built
> your own from source and are using that 2.6.10 kernel.
>
> The neatest way to overcome this problem is to build your custom kernel
> with the additional drivers you need as an RPM and install that, so the
> RPM database will know about it. Instructions for doing this can be
> found at:
>
> http://crab-lab.zool.ohiou.edu/kevin/kernel-compilation-tutorial-en/
>
> Paul.

Thanks - that is exactly the problem and solution (if I have to). Last quick 
question, if I went ahead and installed it by up2date would I lose the added 
on drivers?