Spinning kernel-vanilla packages via standard spec

[Jarod Wilson]

Roland McGrath wrote:
> I already got it working and posted the spec and Makefile patch here.

Gah, sorry, I saw the patch, but missed that the spec mods were included 
in it too.

> (I've also got my stuff for building from git branches working now.)
> Nobody answered about whether they wanted it committed.
> 
> I didn't do it in a way intended to produce different variant rpms called
> kernel-vanilla-V-R, if that's what you had in mind.

It is. And I was under the impression that's what Dave was thinking too, 
but I'll let him speak for himself.

> That requires
> basically duplicating all the innards of the spec file.  I don't think that
> should be attempted without a complete cleanup of the spec file to become
> sane.

More specifically, what I had in mind was to add just one more variant, 
so you'd have kernel, kernel-xen, kernel-kdump, kernel-PAE, etc., plus 
now a kernel-vanilla, which would be analogous to kernel minus patches 
-- i.e., don't bother with kernel-vanilla-xen, kernel-vanilla-kudmp, etc.

Not to say that a spec file sanitization/sane-itization wouldn't be good 
to do as well (which I'm also perfectly willing to take on -- a few 
steps in this direction were taken earlier today).

> What I've done is sufficient for making a vanilla build like this one:
> http://porkchop.devel.redhat.com/brewroot/scratch/roland/task_700227/

Cool, I'll read your patch more carefully now. :)

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Jarod Wilson
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