megaraid_sas rpm dependency request

[Matt Domsch]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 01:39:30PM +0100, Matthias Saou wrote:
> J Potter wrote :
> 
> > Can the megaraid_sas rpm from yum (dell-omsa-specific repo, we're on  
> > CentOS 5 64 bit) be updated to have dependencies on the following  
> > packages?
> > 
> > 	kernel-devel
> > 	gcc
> 
> Whatever problem you're having, this won't necessarily fix it. The
> underlying problem is that you can't automatically require the right
> kernel-devel package for the kernel flavour you're actually running. If
> you're running the plain kernel, then it'll work, but for others (PAE,
> xen), you won't get the right devel package installed, thus still need
> to install it "manually".
> 
> As for gcc, I think that should be required from dkms.

DKMS doesn't require gcc because 'dkms build' is the only function
that uses it. In server cases, many servers don't have (and sysadmins
don't want) compilers installed.  Packages that provide dkms-ified
drivers with precompiled modules won't invoke gcc.

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Matt Domsch
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