En Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 09:32:12PM +0800, Federico Sevilla III escribio:
#_ On Sat, 18 Aug 2001 at 20:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
#_ > 2.4.9? Is there a SRPM for that? I tried finding it on rpmfind.net but
#_ > none came out for RedHat. The only kernel-source is version 2.4.3
#_ > which is also on RedHat's update site. Oh well...
#_
#_ Even when I was using RedHat I _never_ used the RPM-based kernels. Now
#_ that I'm using Debian I still haven't convinced myself to use the kernel
#_ packaging tool to package my kernels. I don't know why. Katamaran, I
#_ guess.
#_
#_ But then it's because the Linux kernel is easy enough not to package, plus
#_ you can go get the Alan Cox patches or the pre-releases if you want. It's
#_ easy to remember where things go: /lib/modules/x.y.z, /boot/bzImage-x.y.z,
#_ /boot/System.map-x.y.z. :)
#_
#_ <http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/> is your friend. :)
What I do is use the Mandrake src.rpm kernel, but instead of building it I
just do an rpm -bp; this preps the kernel by installing all the patches
(goodies) that Mandrake packs with the source. Then I transfer the tree from
/usr/src/RPM/BUILD/Linux-<version> to /usr/src/linux. Then I edit the
Makefile to include -O6 -mpentiumpro -march=pentiumpro etc. etc. Then I do
make menuconfig etc. etc.
If a new patch-<version>.bz2 comes out, I just edit the specfile to include
it in the prep. If it conflicts with some other goodies I edit the specfile
to exclude that particular goodie; anyway the newer patch might have
included it already. I do this until there are no more errors. It's mabusisi
but I get a "bitchin" kernel. ;->
--
Juan Miguel Cacho [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Philippines
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