kernel rpm

[Mark Lane]

On May 25, 2004 12:06 pm, John Thompson <john at os2.dhs.org> wrote:
> I'm in the process of building a new kernel without the dreaded 4K stacks
> so I can use my nVidia hardware.  Is there a means of build an smp rpm in
> this manner?   When I do a "make rpm" after editing the .config file, it
> insists on overwriting .config with the generic single-processor .config
> file.  What's the work-around?

downlaod the src.rpm. Install the src.rpm. Modify the specfile to indicate 
that it's a custom kernel in the rpm name. edit the config files in the 
source directory to reflect your required changes. Then run rpmbuild -ba 
kernel.spec.

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