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

[James Kosin]

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Frank Hamersley wrote:

| Thanks for the prompt reply Alexander ....
|
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|> 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.
|
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Frank,

(1)  Because you said you unpacked the .tar.bz2 file.  We can safely
assume you have the .src.rpm file was what you have.
(2)  Check for the files in /usr/src/redhat....  You should see
directories:
~    (a)  BUILD ... where the RPM builder unpacks the source to and
applies patches to.
~    (b) SOURCES ...  where the RPM builder gets the sources / patches
/ etc for the build process.
~    (c) SPECS ... where the RPM builder gets the spec files for
building the package.

NOTE:
~    The kernel package is not the easiest package to tackle your first
time.  It may be better to build from the sources in
/usr/src/linux-2.4 directory first.  If you updated the
kernel-sources-*.rpm file then you have the latest patched kernel
sources there.
~    Be careful, especially with the kernel.  You can really cause
problems if you don't know what you are doing.
~    First, read the documentation for the latest release of
iptables...  Look for dependencies on a specific kernel version or
iptables modules.
~    Next, compare the source for the iptables modules with the patched
sources for the 7.3 kernel and be sure you will not be breaking anything.
~    Next, try the patches you create on the /usr/src/linux-2.4 kernel
directory by building a custom kernel you can boot from and try....
carefully.


Good Luck,
James Kosin
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