On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 12:10:36PM -0800, Vern W Heesch wrote: ... >So I should remove the rpm from the system and use the tarball? I guess I'm >confused because I can't reinstall a rpm that's already installed. Am I >missing something simple here and confusing myself?
I've only done this with Caldera 2.x and up kernels so can't speak directly to Mandrake or other distributions. The RPMS seem need to be rebuilt along with the kernel are the hwprobe, pcmcia, and iBCS (on 2.2.x kernels). I've built RPMS to support iBCS and power management for laptops for Caldera eDesktop 2.4 so that I can install them on machines without fiddling the individual systems. The way I've done this it to build new RPMS starting with the linux-kernel- binary package leaving the compiled sources in the RPM BUILD directory. Once the kernel RPMS are built, then rebuilding the SRPMS for the other packages uses the libraries, headers, etc. from the RPM BUILD directory instead of /usr/src/linux. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government's ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees.'' -President Bill Clinton, August 12, 1993 _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
