On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 04:02, Doug McClendon wrote: > Dude.....Yes. > > I have reconfigured, and recompiles kernels literally hundreds of times. > I am intimately > familiar with all the options. > > I am interested in rpm --rebuild kernel, because I am interested in > rebuilding the default > mandrake 8.2 kernel, with one new patch applied. I intended, after > checking that --rebuild > worked (which it didn't, and which it should have), to add the > h323-newnat13 patch to the > kernel.spec file in the rpm, and generate an mdk82-default kernel + h323 > nat patch. > > I realize that this is a rather advanced concept, as I am in the process > of generating a custom > distribution derivative of mandrake (just as mandrake is derivative of > redhat). Normally I > read the cooker mailinglist, but since this was a problem with the 8.2 > kernel, and not the > cooker kernel, I assumed this was the place to ask. Well, best of luck to you. I've never heard of anyone doing this, and IMO it's not a good idea to compile a kernel without checking the config options yourself, and with an src.rpm you have no way to do that without unpacking the src.rpm. Is that what you did, and if so what preconfigurations did you find? If you're after getting a kernel like the Mandrake people did it on the cdroms, then I suggest loading the kernel from the cdroms. Just because you have a source rpm there's no guarantee that the factory mandrake config options have been saved to that rpm. Have you verified or asked anyone about that? Even with applications or other classes of source packages, it's sometimes tricky to get --rebuild to function flawlessly. Personally I've never heard of anyone doing this with a kernel src.rpm; mostly because perhaps doing so relieves you of all kernel configuration control, unless you open up the src and then repackage it again, which would invalidate the reason for --rebuild in the first place. Perhaps Civileme has something to share on this. > All I want is to generate the mdk82 kernel rpm, in the same way it was > generated by > mandrake. I definately assume that they generated it with rpm > --rebuild, and not by hand > as you suggested. You're assuming that the kernel programmers would rather do a --rebuild than configure using the tools built into the kernel source for that purpose? For people that are capable of authoring or tweaking the kernel source itself, why would you make an assumption like that? > -dmc > LX -- ��������������������������������������������������� Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk Mandrake Linux 8.1 Enlightenment 0.16.5 Evolution 1.02 Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ ��������������������������������������������������� _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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