Building Fedora Legacy 2.4.20-43.7 for RH7.3 from sources.

[Frank Hamersley]

Thanks for the prompt reply Alexander ....

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-legacy-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:fedora-legacy-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Alexander
> Dalloz
> Sent: Friday, 5 August 2005 12:29 AM
> To: Discussion of the Fedora Legacy Project
> Subject: Re: Building Fedora Legacy 2.4.20-43.7 for RH7.3
> from sources.
>
> Am Do, den 04.08.2005 schrieb Frank Hamersley um 16:22:
>
> > Can anyone point me to a useful howto on building the
> latest Fedora RH73
> > legacy kernel from source?
>
> Could you be specific about what you want to do differently
> than the FLP
> package does for the resulting kernel rpm? There must be a reason to
> compile your own, but with the legacy kernel source.

Partially a learning exercise, but mostly I want to freshen my iptables to
the latest stable and decided that I should go all the way through from
first principles ie. starting with the kernel.

> > I have installed the src rpm (2.4.20-43.7) and unpacked the
> .tar.bz2 file.
> > However I am confused about how to apply the .patch files
> (as they do not
> > seem to be applied to the source).
>
> > Can anyone provide enlightenment?  Cheers, Frank.
>
> Use the spec file which is located in SPECS. "rpmbuild --help" ->
>
>   -bp                           build through %prep (unpack
> sources and
> apply
>                                 patches) from <specfile>

Just about to hit the sack here (12:41 AM Sydney).  Will look at this
tomorrow...but did not notice any SPECS directory after installing the rpm.
Will check again in daylight.

Cheers, Frank.