[ale] rpm questions........

[Courtney Thomas]

I am attempting to upgrade 6.1's kernel [2.2.12-20] to 2.4.17 and have 
successfully compiled the kernel
but my obstacle is installing modules [not making] since they, 
apparently, were successfully made.

The difficulty is about 3/4 way down in Makefile, pertaining to 
_modinst_post, a post modules install
sequence I assume. It appears from the commented text that this creates 
modules.dep. Anyway,
'make' complains of the '-F' parameter and subsequently assumes there is 
a System.map directory,
which there is not. All this assumes a 2.4.17 compatible 'modutils' 
setup, I think.

When I attempt rpm -Uvh ~modutils-2.4.13-0.7.1.i386.rpm, I get.........

	failed dependencies:
		rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1 is needed by 
modutils-2.4.13-0.7.1.i386.rpm
		rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.04-1 is needed			"
		libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.3) is needed						"
		/sbin/insmod.static is needed by mkinitrd-2.3-1

1-/sbin/insmod.static exists
2-libc.so.6 exists, though GLIBC is 2.1.2 not 2.1.3
3 & 4-rpmlib(.....) refers to what and how is this fixed ?

Finally, when I attempt to install almost anything, I get all kinds of 
dependency complaints.
What is the best way to handle all the requests for libraries,files of 
all sorts, etc. ?

Appreciatively,
Courtney


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