Thank you...as I write this I am on the page but, perhaps I am blind but,
like essentially every kernel-howto I have looked at, it seems to be for
compiling kernel tarballs and not really addressing building a kernel
src.rpm.
Let me see if I am understanding this mess. I install
kernel-whatever.src.rpm. Must I then go to /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES and move
every single bz2 to a new location in order to make the damn thing? There is
a kernel-whatever.tar.bz2 there in that directory, but there is also
innumberable patches and extra stuff that I do not know what to do with.
If I must move everything, why does the rpm system place it all in the
"wrong" place for? (Say, instead of placing kernel-whatever.tar.bz2 from the
src.rpm in /usr/src/source/kernel, the patches in their correct location,
etc?)
On Tuesday 30 January 2001 19:02, you wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 January 2001 04:39 pm, Praedor Tempus wrote:
> > I have never built a kernel from a source rpm before. I have always
> > used tarballs. The src.rpm places patches and config files, etc, etc
> > in /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES... How does one go about building an src.rpm
> > kernel?
> > Is there a page that I can go to, a HOWTO? The proceedure is obviously
> > different than with src tarballs.
>
> http://mandrakeuser.org/install/kupgrade.html
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