custom kernel

ShashankBhide bhides at gmail.com
Sat Feb 5 18:54:55 UTC 2005


> 1. Obtain and install the src.rpm
> 2. Edit the spec file to compile a kernel-source.rpm
> 3. Install the kernel-source.rpm which installs the complete source tree
> to /usr/src.
> 4. Make mrproper, make menuconfig, make all, make modules_install, make
> install, make clean.
> 
> You now have a new, fully customized kernel, ready to run, with
> grub.conf updated.
> 
> "But it's not an RPM." So what?

I would love to give this a try and most definitely will do it, however 
from what I read, you would need the rpm database to know about to new 
kernel to let up2date know about the newly installed kernel. Or is there 
another way of letting up2date know that I have a new kernel ?

Thanks,
shashank




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