Custom kernel packages

[Chris Kloiber]

On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 19:25 +0200, Eric Daras wrote:
> Trond,
> 
> Wednesday, June 9, 2004, 1:51:56 PM, you wrote:
> 
> TAH> Chris Kloiber wrote:
> >> What is wrong with rpm -ivh kernel*.src.rpm, then making your changes
> >> and recompiling with rpmbuild -ba kernel-2.6.spec?
> 
> TAH> It's not wrong, it's what he wanted to know...
> 
> 
> 
> Is there doc that expain how to do it step by step ?  Otherwhise can
> you give me some guidelines...

Even becoming root is not strictly needed if you set up a non-root build
environment, but...

$ su -
# rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.6-1.424.src.rpm
# cd /usr/src/redhat

>From there, you find the spec file in SPECS, the sources in SOURCES.

You can patch the sources as needed, and/or edit the spec file. Finally
you can run the command(s):

# cd SPECS
# rpmbuild -ba --target=noarch,i686 kernel-2.6.spec

If all goes well, you will find the new *.src.rpm in ../SRPMS, the
kernel-sourcecode* and kernel-doc* in ../RPMS/noarch and the kernel*.
i686.rpm files in ../RPMS/i686.

Normally it won't go well the first few times, but keep at it. There are
books available about rpm building, as well as other mailing lists.

-- 
Chris Kloiber