Re: [Scst-devel] rebuild-rhel-kernel-rpm and OpenSUSE

[Curtis M. <cu...@ti...>]

On 26/12/12 04:36, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On 12/25/12 00:56, Curtis Maloney wrote:
>> Recently I've been using OpenSUSE in place of RHEL/CentOS as it provides
>> far more up-to-date things [like, a 3.x kernel!]
>>
>> However, the handy rebuild-rhel-kernel-rpm script won't sniff at it...
>> fair enough, it's rhel not centos, but I thought they might still be
>> similar enough.
>>
>> Also, when I did use CentOS 6 this week, the rebuilt kernel packages
>> didn't appear to indicate they had SCST support... nor, in fact, did
>> they appear to have SCST modules -- "modprobe scst" failed.
>>
>> Q1. Does anyone currently use OpenSUSE, and if so, do you have notes on
>> building a custom kernel?
>>
>> Q2. Is the rebuild-rhel-kernel-rpm script expected to still work
>> correctly on current latest CentOS 6.x?
>
> My answers are:
>
> Q1: I'm using OpenSUSE myself but with a 3.6.10 kernel from kernel.org
> instead of the OpenSUSE kernel. Works great :-)

Always encouraging to hear :)

> Q2: The rebuild-rhel-kernel-rpm script should work with any CentOS 6.x
> version. If not, please report this.

Well, it completes without error, but it would be easier to know I'd hit 
the right kernel on boot if it, for instance, changed the local version 
to "-scst" or similar...

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Curtis