How to build kernel-sourcecode-2.6.8-1.525

[Paul W. Frields]

On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 13:13, Martin Gansser wrote:
> > > i tried to build kernel-sourcecode-2.6.8-1.525
> > > from src.rpm with the following command:
> > > 
> > > rpmbuild --rebuild --target=i686-linux kernel-2.6.8-1.525.src.rpm
> > 
> > easiest is to install the src.rpm and then to do
> > 
> > rpmbuild -bp --target=i686 kernel-2.6.spec on the thus created specfile.
> > 
> i installed the src.rpm 
> rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.8-1.525.src.rpm
> 
> with rpmbuild -bp --target=i686 kernel-2.6.spec
> this are the last few message: 
> ...
> removed `./init/main.c.orig'
> + find . -name '*~' -exec rm -fv '{}' ';'
> + exit 0
> 
> but no kernel-sourcecode-2.6.8-1.525.root.noarch.rpm
> was build.

Do:

rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.8-1.525.src.rpm
cd `rpm --eval "%_topdir"`
rpmbuild -bb --target=noarch SPECS/kernel-2.6.spec

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Paul W. Frields, RHCE