[PlanetCCRMA] kernel-rt-headers conflict

Mike Lococo mikelococo at gmail.com
Tue Mar 18 15:26:01 2008


>> While installing the kernel-rt package, I tried to install 
>> kernel-rt-headers along with it.  Unfortunately, it won't install due to 
>> a conflict with kernel-headers from Fedora. 
> 
> Is it installing automatically? It is not really necessary to install
> it. Maybe I should not put it in the repository...

It isn't.  I'm attempting to install it manually based on the assumption 
that it's contents differ in some meaningful way from those of the 
standard kernel-headers package, and that any modules compiled against 
the standard headers would have been broken with respect to the RT 
kernel.  Your explanation below tells my that this assumption is wrong.

If the contents aren't different than those in the standard kernel 
headers package, and if no other packages in ccrma depend on it, I would 
pull it from the repo.  No package from Fedora-proper will ever depend 
on it, so it can't serve its intended function.

>> Is this a bug, can the multiple headers be made to coexist or is it just 
>> impossible to use the RT kernel with dkms drivers?
> 
> It should be possible to use it with the "normal" kernel headers package
> (after installing kernel-rt-devel, of course). 

I'll try this and report back with the results.  Thanks for taking the 
time to address my question.

Mike Lococo