Re: Making new kernel RPMS

2001-10-12 Thread Bill Crawford
On 11 Oct 2001, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: Does anyone have any advice on how to make kernel RPMS out of more recent Linus or -ac kernels? The spec file is extremely complicated (two thousand lines) and full of things that I do not need, so I was hoping to find a simplified spec file that

Re: Making new kernel RPMS

2001-10-12 Thread Tom Diehl
On 11 Oct 2001, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: I'd like to build RPMs of more recent kernels, but the kernel spec files have to be the most complicated of them all. (Two thousand lines!) Does anyone have a simplified spec file I can build from? I need only a few configs (smp, up, enterprise,

Re: Making new kernel RPMS

2001-10-11 Thread Jan Carlson
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 01:27:02AM -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: I'd like to build RPMs of more recent kernels, but the kernel spec files have to be the most complicated of them all. (Two thousand lines!) Does anyone have a simplified spec file I can build from? I need only a few

Re: Making new kernel RPMS

2001-10-11 Thread Jason L Tibbitts III
JC == Jan Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JC Use rpm -ba --target=TARG to build for only one JC archetecture. Yes, that saves a lot of time. But what I want to do is take, say, 2.4.10 plus Alan's patch and a few others (not nearly as many as Red Hat applies) and build a kernel for a couple

Re: Making new kernel RPMS

2001-10-11 Thread Jack Bowling
Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: JC == Jan Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: snip JC 1. use RH's kernel with minor mods That's what I have been doing. None of them work well because the VM completely breaks down under high usage. (The machines have 700GB of disk , 2 processors and 2GB of

Re: Making new kernel RPMS

2001-10-11 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On 11 Oct 2001, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: Let me start over: Does anyone have any advice on how to make kernel RPMS out of more recent Linus or -ac kernels? The spec file is extremely complicated (two thousand lines) and full of things that I do not need, so I was hoping to find a

Re: Making new kernel RPMS

2001-10-11 Thread Giulio Orsero
On 11 Oct 2001 14:14:39 -0500, you wrote: Does anyone have any advice on how to make kernel RPMS out of more recent Linus or -ac kernels? The spec file is extremely complicated (two thousand lines) and full of things that I do not need, so I was hoping to find a You could just substitute the

Making new kernel RPMS

2001-10-10 Thread Jason L Tibbitts III
I'd like to build RPMs of more recent kernels, but the kernel spec files have to be the most complicated of them all. (Two thousand lines!) Does anyone have a simplified spec file I can build from? I need only a few configs (smp, up, enterprise, in 686 and athlon) and none of the more