hi, its installed:
kernel-devel-2.6.18-8.1.3.el5.i686 "Development package for developing
kernel modules to match the kernel".
kernel-headers-2.6.18-8.1.3.el5.i386 "Header files for the Linux kernel for
use by glibc"
But, you know its the kernel itself that I am building, not a module, thus
these are irrelevant.
I don't understand why the RPM build process would build everything
perfectly, except for
the source output directory being named linux-2.6.18.i686 instead of the
expected 2.6.18-8.1.3_test.el5-i686.
I decided to see if patches were applied beyond the 2.6.18 level and so
unzipped "patch-2.6.18.4.bz" that was in SOURCES.
Then I picked at random a section patching Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
beginning on line 26 thus:
1 = Zone reclaim on
2 = Zone reclaim writes ...
4 = Zone reclaim swaps ...
-8 = Also do a global ...
I see in my BUILD/kernel-2.6.18/linux-2.6.18.i686 that the patch was applied
(the last line was taken out), thus the directory name does not reflect the
actual patch level of the source code.
It seems to be a bug :-\
-m
----- Original Message -----
From: "Akemi Yagi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 12:41 PM
Subject: Re: rpm kernel build question
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:35 PM, markaoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
hi,
I just dl'd & built a kernel source RPM ( 2.6.18-8.1.3.el5-i686 ) as I
needed to set some kernel
switches for a new driver.
The rpm build process produced the exact RPMs that I expected, complete
with
my little version
'_test' at the end.
The system boots my new 2.6.18-8.1.3_test.el5 kernel just fine.
The problem is that the rpm BUILD output dir only has linux-2.6.18.i686,
and
my symlink
( /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.1.3_test.el5/build ) is expecting a
2.6.18-8.1.3_test.el5-i686
source directory. This symlink was set by the rpmbuild process.
Any idea why the RPM build process produced a linux-2.6.18.i686 rather
than
the expected 2.6.18-8.1.3_test.el5-i686
source code directory?
Thanks, I appreciate any insight,
-m
Need to install your version of kernel-devel ?
Akemi
