More strangeness kernel-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3 update

[Yuandan Zhang]

Philip Prindeville wrote:

> I installed the latest FC3 kernel update, but I'm seeing:
>
> [root at media ~]# ls -ltr /lib/modules/2.6.12-1.1372_FC3/
> total 924
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     49 Jul 20 16:35 build ->
> ../../../usr/src/kernels/2.6.12-1.1372_FC3-x86_64
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      5 Jul 20 16:35 source -> build
> drwxr-xr-x  9 root root   4096 Jul 20 16:35 kernel
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 268793 Jul 20 16:35 modules.usbmap
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  84243 Jul 20 16:35 modules.symbols
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 163080 Jul 20 16:35 modules.pcimap
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   2237 Jul 20 16:35 modules.isapnpmap
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root    357 Jul 20 16:35 modules.inputmap
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root    813 Jul 20 16:35 modules.ieee1394map
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 193484 Jul 20 16:35 modules.dep
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root     69 Jul 20 16:35 modules.ccwmap
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 184451 Jul 20 16:35 modules.alias
> [root at media ~]#
>
> i.e.  "build" should have been copied out as a deep copy, rather than
> a shallow copy in the packaging.
>
> On a semi-related note, I found that if you do:
>
> cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
> rpmbuild -bc --target x86_64 --buildroot /usr/src kernel-2.6.spec
>
> after installing the kernel source RPM, then some very bad things happen.
>
> It tries to do an "rm -rf *" inside /usr/src.  Ouch.  That's not right!
>
> What's the standard way to get the source RPM to unpack into
> /usr/src/kernels
> and build in there?
>
> -Philip
>
>
I updated kernel-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3 and installed the 
kernel-devel-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3. it seems the kernel-devel installed a 
dir at /lib/modules/2.6.12-1.1372_FC3/build, this includes C heaher 
files needed when I update VMware configuration.

You may try to expliciently install kernel-devel, see if this fix a few 
things.