On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 05:00:34PM -0400, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > I seem to see tags in CVS for every kernel release since water was > invented (OK, since 2_4_0 anyway) but I don't see a tag for the 2_4_18-8_1 > (the 8.2 update kernel) release. Was no tag made in CVS for it? How > can I retrieve the exact spec used to build 2.4.18-8.1mdk from CVS? > I really don't want to download the entire 2.4.18-8.1mdk SRPM just for > the spec file.
I don't think updates go into CVS.... I'd imagine mostly because the maintainers don't have anything to do with the updates. Courtesy of rpm2cpio: [breser@stream ktemp]$ rpm2cpio kernel-2.4.18.8.1mdk-1-3mdk.src.rpm | cpio -ivd kernel-2.4.spec I put up the spec from that kernel here: http://mirror.brain.org/misc/kernel-2.4.spec > And on another different, but related topic, how about if the specfile > that was included in the kernel-source rpm had an option to it to > simply package up the binaries that were built in the kernel-source > tree? That way, even if the kernel-source package is used to > (possibly patch and) build a new kernel, one could at least get it > packaged into an RPM for easy transport and installation on a network > of systems. > > If this sounds like a good idea for kernel-source, I would be willing > to contribute the work of altering the specfile to handle this > operation. I am going to do this for a specfile right now in fact. > It would be nice to have it rolled into the distro though. Sounds nifty to me. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org Never take no as an answer from someone who isn't authorized to say yes.
