Can you (or anybody) recommend a place to find more information about
these kernel source rpms? I keep searching around, but not finding the
stuff I need.
It's honestly confusing. I've successfully patched the vanilla kernel
plenty of times using other patches, and I think I pretty much
understood them. This stuff though, not sure if it makes sense:
kernel installed on a RH9 machine is 2.4.20-6, srpm is for 2.4.20-8
There is the *.spec file, which looks like it could build a kernel tree,
but some things don't seem like they'd work. Some of the patches are
expecting to patch a tree called linux-2.4.20, some a tree called linux,
some a tree called linux-1, and in some patch files they're mixed (i.e.,
there are sections meant to patch a tree called linux-1, and then there
are sections meant to patch a tree called linux, all in the same patch
file).
Undoubtedly it's my own ignorance causing me problems, so I was
wondering where I could look to understand the system they use. Is
their a how-to or something like it available? I've read some
documentation about making rpms, but it didn't fill in enough of the
blanks to get a good picture.
Sorry for the stupidity,
-Charles
Jimen Ching wrote:
Most distributions have patches over the vanilla kernel. They usually
distribute the patch with their kernel. Perhaps you can look through the
patch set and spot something that might expose the problem in the vanilla
kernel.
--jc
