How to build kernel-sourcecode-2.6.8-1.525

[Neil Horman]

Martin Gansser wrote:

>Am Sa, den 21.08.2004 schrieb Arjan van de Ven um 19:16:
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>>On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 07:13:57PM +0200, Martin Gansser wrote:
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>>>+ find . -name '*~' -exec rm -fv '{}' ';'
>>>+ exit 0
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>>>but no kernel-sourcecode-2.6.8-1.525.root.noarch.rpm
>>>was build.
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>>>What is going wrong ?
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>>you now have the sourcecode expanded into /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-<version>
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>>there is no kernel-sourcecode-2.6.8-1.525 package... why do you need one?
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>to compile my own kernelbuildprep gets you what you need.  Just follow the directions in the README at the top of he source tree
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>>(I assumed you wanted the kernel source... but you didn't say so explicitly)
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>yes
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>why does no kernel-source package are distributed ?
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because its redundant to the src rpm

Neil