How to build kernel-sourcecode-2.6.8-1.525

[Marcel J.E. Mol]

On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 04:53:09PM +0200, Martin Gansser wrote:
> 
> > > sorry, but this is not a answer of my question.
> > > how do i get the sources from kernel-2.6.8-1.525.src.rpm,
> > > I remeber in the past, if I rebuild with the command
> > > 
> > > rpmbuild --rebuild --target=i686-linux kernel-2.6.8-1.525.src.rpm
> > > 
> > > a package kernel-sourcecode-2.6.xxx.noarch.rpm was build.
> > 
> > Actually, it *was* an answer, at least of sorts. If you read the .spec
> > file, you'll see that you need to e.g. give --target=noarch to build
> > kernel-sourcecode. It looks to me that the default %buildsource is 0
> > unless overridden, and that only happens %ifarch noarch. Corrections are
> > welcome.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Paul W. Frields, RHCE
> 
> rpmbuild --rebuild --target=noarch kernel-2.6.8-1.525.src.rpm
> 
> builds only:
> 
> Wrote:/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/noarch/kernel-doc-2.6.8-1.525.root.noarch.rpm
> 
> 
> now i found a solution:
> 
> first i exstract the spec file 
> 
> - rpmbuild --rebuild --target=i686-linux kernel-2.6.8-1.525.src.rpm
> - edit the kernel spec file: kernel-2.6.spec
>   set %define buildsource 0 to %define buildsource 1
> 
> rebuild:
> 
> rpmbuild -ba --target=noarch kernel-2.6.spec
> 
> 
> my last question, why is the name of the rpm 
> 
> kernel-sourcecode-2.6.8-1.525.root.noarch.rpm
>                               ^^^^ 
> is it possible to get a name like this ?
> kernel-sourcecode-2.6.8-1.525.noarch.rpm

Check the spec file again. From that I learned that a
'touch /etc/beehive-root' before the rpmbuild should do it.

-Marcel
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