kernel-sourcecode missing?

Dan Williams dcbw at redhat.com
Mon Nov 1 21:14:05 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 21:02 +0100, Jan Brond wrote:
> The above mentioned document does a good job. Its nice and easy explained.
> Unfortunatly the way of building the kernel is pretty strange/confusing 
> and the installing of the kernel (using rpm) took quite some time to 
> finish (around 5min which is way more than copying the files to the 
> /boot dir and modify grub.conf). Maybe rpm is doing some dependency 
> checking before installing the files(maybe it could be switch off to 
> improve install time). If you are tweaking the kernel the turnaround 

The %install/%post do a lot of hardlinking of files too, I forget
exactly where, probably in /lib and whatnot.

Dan




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