User's Manual

46 Rebuilding Packages
Rebuilding a Package to Add Kernel Support to
a Single System
The following command rebuilds the package for the currently running
version of the kernel.
./packagename. bin --rebuild
Depending on your system configuration, the rebuild takes between a few
seconds and a few minutes to complete. DUPs display any error messages
encountered while executing the rebuild command.
The /tmp directory requires 6 MB or more to execute the --rebuild
command. If the /tmp directory lacks space for the execution of the
--rebuild command, the following message is displayed:
Archive cannot be extracted. Please ensure that there
is enough space in the tmp folder.
When the rebuild is complete, an output package is created with the
suffix --CUSTOM. The rebuilt package name has the syntax:
packagename .bin--CUSTOM
The package on which the --rebuild option was run remains unchanged.
Rebuilding the Package to Add Kernel Support for
Multiple Kernel Versions
Customers typically have three or four versions of a Linux kernel running
across larger networks. For each unsupported kernel, a package should be
rebuilt on similar test systems. The process for creating this package is
described by the following flow diagram in Figure 4-2:
Figure 4-2. Creating a Package That Supports Multiple Kernels
Test system
running
kernel
version (a)
Test system
running
kernel
version (c)
Output
package
containing
support for
kernel version
(a), (b), and (c)
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Test system
running
kernel
version (b)