Rebuilding Fedora

[Roland Kaeser]

Hello

There is a mistake. I would like to completly rebuild the whole 
distribution rmps from the srpms iso's not just the kernel.

Kind regards

Roland Kaeser


Lawrence Bowie wrote:

> rpm -ivh kernel-sourcecode (this is specifically is not a package but 
> here are some of the latest ...
>
>    kernel-sourcecode-2.6.8-1.521
>    kernel-sourcecode-2.6.7-1.494.2.2
>
>
> cd /usr/src/"name of current kernel source code you are going to 
> re-compile"
> make mrproper
> make menuconfig
>    ->processor type and features
>    ->processor family (press enter to select the specific processor)
>    ->ESC
>    ->ESC
>    ->Enter
> vi Makefile
>    -> (Append the line EXTRAVERSION at the top of the Makefile to say  
> something like  custom
>        so .. if EXTRAVERSION reads "EXTRAVERSION = -1.494.2.2" then 
> change it to
>        "EXTRAVERSION = -1.494.2.2customize_to_whatever". Just make it 
> different.)
> make
> make install modules_install
>
>
>
>
> That should be all ...
>
> LDB
>
>
> Roland Kaeser wrote:
>
>> Hello
>>
>> I would like to build the fedora 2 release for the actual P4 CPU 
>> instead of the i386 packages shipped with the normal iso images.
>> Is there a howto to automaticly build a new fedora release out of the 
>> srpm isos'
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Roland Kaeser
>> Systems Administrator
>>
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