On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 12:01 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 9:36 PM, Andrew Z <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 11:37 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> >> Excellent for you! Can you post a diff between your .config file and
> >> the standard /boot/config-[whatever] configuration file, for our
> >> reference? Did you build a tweaked RPM, or simply install from the
> >> "mock" environment?
> >
> > Nico,
> >  that's a good idea. I'm not sure i understand what you meant under
> "tweaked
> > rpm"...
> > Here is the result of the diff: Well, yes, now when i'm looking @ the
> diff,
> > i recalled that i switched olpc off. So there you have 2 changes....
>
> Got it.
>
> The reason I asked abot building modified RPM's is that, when I deploy
> modified kernels, I tend to take an SRPM, tweak the config files, and
> change the 'release' setting in the .spec file to build an SRPM and
> RPM's for deployment. It helps me keep track of what I've done, and
> rebuild or modify as necessary.
>

yes, i did exactly what you refer to as "tweaked rpm". I modified kernel's
config file by adding "usb" suffix to the kernel's name and changed those 2
options. After that i proceeded with rpmbuild and now have (new) srpm and
bunch of (new) rpms. All that i put in a local repository and installed from
there.

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