pcmcia-cs dilemma

[Bill Campbell]

On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 12:10:36PM -0800, Vern W Heesch wrote:
...
>So I should remove the rpm from the system and use the tarball? I guess I'm 
>confused because I can't reinstall a rpm that's already installed.  Am I 
>missing something simple here and confusing myself?

I've only done this with Caldera 2.x and up kernels so can't speak directly
to Mandrake or other distributions.  The RPMS seem need to be rebuilt along
with the kernel are the hwprobe, pcmcia, and iBCS (on 2.2.x kernels).  I've
built RPMS to support iBCS and power management for laptops for Caldera
eDesktop 2.4 so that I can install them on machines without fiddling the
individual systems.

The way I've done this it to build new RPMS starting with the linux-kernel-
binary package leaving the compiled sources in the RPM BUILD directory.
Once the kernel RPMS are built, then rebuilding the SRPMS for the other
packages uses the libraries, headers, etc. from the RPM BUILD directory
instead of /usr/src/linux.

Bill
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