https://jira.whamcloud.com This file is an XML representation of an issue en-us 9.4.14 940014 05-12-2023 https://jira.whamcloud.com/browse/LU-475 Lustre <p>The rpms for this build <a href="http://newbuild.whamcloud.com/job/lustre-reviews/1180/build_type=client,distro=el5,arch=x86_64,ib_stack=inkernel/?" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">http://newbuild.whamcloud.com/job/lustre-reviews/1180/build_type=client,distro=el5,arch=x86_64,ib_stack=inkernel/?</a> and the server version do not contain the kernel dependancy information as part of the RPM.</p> <p>I.e. the kernel rpm does not say which kernel it provides, and the client modules does not say which kernel is requires.</p> <p>It may well be that other information is also missing, but this information certainly is. I've also not check to see if this is a per branch or build thing.</p> LU-475

RPMs do not contain kernel requirements.

Bug Major Resolved Duplicate Brian Murrell Chris Gearing Thu, 30 Jun 2011 13:05:59 +0000 Thu, 9 Feb 2012 08:36:38 +0000 Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:59:18 +0000 0 0 <blockquote> <p>The rpms for this build <a href="http://newbuild.whamcloud.com/job/lustre-reviews/1180/build_type=client,distro=el5,arch=x86_64,ib_stack=inkernel/?" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">http://newbuild.whamcloud.com/job/lustre-reviews/1180/build_type=client,distro=el5,arch=x86_64,ib_stack=inkernel/?</a> and the server version do not contain the kernel dependancy information as part of the RPM.</p></blockquote> <p>For the client modules and the server kernel, this does not seem to be true:</p> <div class="code panel" style="border-width: 1px;"><div class="codeContent panelContent"> <pre class="code-java">$ rpm -q --requires -p lustre-client-modules-1.8.6-2.6.18_238.12.1.el5_gce5e033.x86_64.rpm /bin/sh /bin/sh /bin/sh kernel = 2.6.18-238.12.1.el5 rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) &lt;= 3.0.4-1 rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) &lt;= 4.0-1 $ rpm -q --provides -p kernel-2.6.18-238.12.1.el5_lustre.g529529a.x86_64.rpm kernel = 2.6.18 kernel-drm = 4.3.0 kernel-x86_64 = 2.6.18-238.12.1.el5_lustre.g529529a kernel = 2.6.18-238.12.1.el5_lustre.g529529a </pre> </div></div> <p>Although the server modules is not requiring a specific kernel:</p> <div class="code panel" style="border-width: 1px;"><div class="codeContent panelContent"> <pre class="code-java">$ rpm -q --requires -p lustre-modules-1.8.6-2.6.18_238.12.1.el5_lustre.g529529a_gcfaa163.x86_64.rpm /bin/sh /bin/sh /bin/sh rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) &lt;= 3.0.4-1 rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) &lt;= 4.0-1 </pre> </div></div> <p>But all in all, this is <a href="https://jira.whamcloud.com/browse/LU-127" title="lustre modules on rhel should require their kernel" class="issue-link" data-issue-key="LU-127"><del>LU-127</del></a> (followed up by <a href="https://jira.whamcloud.com/browse/LU-257" title="lustre.spec.in utilises undefined macro krequires" class="issue-link" data-issue-key="LU-257"><del>LU-257</del></a>, both of) which was(were) not landed on b1_8.</p> <p>I should add that IIRC, I discussed this issue with the b1_8 release team (quite a while ago) and they declined to land this at the time. Perhaps now that we are open and doing releases on that branch they might reconsider. You might want to bring this up with them to see if that's the case.</p> Duplicate LU-127 Development Rank 1|hzvi5r: Rank (Obsolete) 6591 Severity