Going from Broadcom's sources to wireless card to WPA network
Suresh Govindachar
sgovindachar at yahoo.com
Fri Mar 4 21:27:32 UTC 2011
Suresh Govindachar wrote:
>Todd Zullinger wrote:
>>stan wrote:
>>>> yum install development-group development-libs
>>>
>>> I realized I made an error in this command. It should be
>>>
>>> yum groupinstall development-tools development-libs
>>
>> As a slight tangent, you can use install with groups, you
>> just need to prefix them with the @ symbol, e.g.:
>>
>> yum install @development-group @development-libs
>>
>> (Or for the lazy bash types: yum install @development-{group,lib} ;)
>
> Turns out yum installs the latest version of things it is
> asked to install -- and this can be an issue when installing
> kernel-headers and kernel-devel for the purpose of building
> kernel modules. Even if yum install of kernel stuff is done
> on the machine on which the to-be-built kernel module will
> be deployed, the kernel stuff installed by yum might not
> match (might be newer than) the kernel of the calling
> machine!
Thanks for the tip for "lazy bash types" --
yum --installroot=`pwd`/foo -y -v install kernel-{headers,devel}-`uname -r`
(I used the above but wrote out the `pwd` value explicitly;
I suppose -y -v can be replaced by -yv; echoing the command
before executing it helps to ensure correctness.)
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