CentOS - Aug 2012 - I cannot find the package: kernel-headers-2.6.32-71.29.1 in centos mirror list

Hi guys,

I want to build openvswitch kernel module, and my centos is 6.0, kernel
version is 2.6.32-71.29.1.el6.x86_64. But i cannot find the
kernel-headers-2.6.32-71.29.1.el6.x86_64. I use the yum command to install
kernel-headers package: yum
install kernel-headers-2.6.32-71.29.1.el6.x86_64, it says no package
available. (BTW My yum repos is coming from
http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=30.)

Please help me if you have this package, or plz tell me where can find it.

Thanks in advanced,
Kris

Am 27.08.2012 09:42, schrieb Kris zhang:
> Hi guys,
> 
> I want to build openvswitch kernel module, and my centos is 6.0, kernel
> version is 2.6.32-71.29.1.el6.x86_64. But i cannot find the
> kernel-headers-2.6.32-71.29.1.el6.x86_64. I use the yum command to install
> kernel-headers package: yum
> install kernel-headers-2.6.32-71.29.1.el6.x86_64, it says no package
> available. (BTW My yum repos is coming from
> http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=30.)
> 
> Please help me if you have this package, or plz tell me where can find it.
> 
> Thanks in advanced,
> Kris

CentOS 6.0 is deprecated, current is 6.3 plus current updates. IT is
important to keep your install up to date.

Once you updated your CentOS installation to the current state,
including the current kernel, rebootet your system with the new kernel,
you can simply run "yum install kernel-headers".

Alexander

For building most kernel modules, you need kernel-devel, not kernel-headers.

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Hi guys,

I want to build openvswitch kernel module, and my centos is 6.0, kernel
version is 2.6.32-71.29.1.el6.x86_64. But i cannot find the
kernel-headers-2.6.32-71.29.1.el6.x86_64. I use the yum command to install
kernel-headers package: yum install
kernel-headers-2.6.32-71.29.1.el6.x86_64, it says no package available. (BTW
My yum repos is coming from
http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=30.)

Please help me if you have this package, or plz tell me where can find it.

Thanks in advanced,
Kris
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On Monday, August 27, 2012 05:31:12 AM Kris zhang wrote:
> You are right, Thomas. i want to find the kernel-headers firstly, and then
> i will find the kernel-devel. and the kernel-headers is needed by gcc.
> 
> I have a question: is it ok if the version of kernel-header and
> kernel-devel are not same?
As you have been told, you really need to get on CentOS6 Update 3 (aka, 6.3) for
security update purposes.  Having said that, I'll address the rest of the
list by saying that we do not know the particular requirements of the OP, and it
is pretty clear from the thread that the OP does not have the discretion to do
the update and must get approval from higher-ups.  This sort of situation
happens, and telling the OP to update, without addressing the actual question as
well, is useless.  The OP's higher-ups may have very particular reasons to
want/need the older version, and we are not in a position to tell them that they
are wrong; sure, staying current is the normally right thing to do, but there is
a reason that Scientific Linux differs from CentOS is this respect, allowing
people to take only security updates but stay at a particular point release.  It
makes their process more complicated, but it is their goal.  Now, neither in my
personal use of CentOS nor in my work use of CentOS have I yet found a need to
stick to a particular point release, but that doesn't mean that a valid need
to stick to a particular point release does not exist.  If I were to find that I
needed to stick to a point release for some reason, I'd probably use SL for
that particular purpose and CentOS for the other systems.

Now, to actually answer the OP's questions..... 

I believe, but am not sure, that you do need the same versions of kernel-devel
and kernel-headers and they must match the kernel version that you're using.

You can get this older version of kernel-headers at:
http://vault.centos.org/6.0/updates/x86_64/RPMS/kernel-headers-2.6.32-71.29.1.el6.x86_64.rpm

The matching kernel-devel is at:
http://vault.centos.org/6.0/updates/x86_64/RPMS/kernel-devel-2.6.32-71.29.1.el6.x86_64.rpm