Fedora core 3 usr/src

[Aleksandar Milivojevic]

BZ Benny wrote:
> I'm particulary looking for Bluez source code. But I
> prefer to have all source code because I want to
> rebuild My kernel.

You don't need all sources (you'd just waste gigabytes and gigabytes of 
disk space).  Fedora is not nice and small OS like OpenBSD where 
downloading all the sources isn't such a big deal.  Download only 
sources that you need.  They are located in SRPMS directory on the main 
ftp/http server and mirrors.  SRPM packages always have .src.rpm extension.

To install SRPM package, just do rpm -i name-of.src.rpm.  If you do it 
as root, it will install it under /usr/src/redhat, files will be owned 
by root, and you'd have to do all compiling as root (unless you change 
ownership of files there).

However, my advice is not to do it as root, and create appropriate 
directory structure in your home directory instead.  I've attached 
.rpmmacros file that I use.  Save it to your home directory and edit to 
match your configuration (for example, I've defined my PGP key for 
signing packages that I build, and so on).  If you don't want to sign 
packages, you'd only need %_topdir line.  If you want to use same 
directory names as myself (see included .rpmmacros file), create this 
directory structure:

~/rpm/BUILD
~/rpm/RPMS
~/rpm/SOURCES
~/rpm/SPECS
~/rpm/SRPMS

When you do "rpm -i package.src.rpm" as normal user (yourself), it'll 
copy files to SOURCES and SPECS directory you just created.  rpmbuld 
command will use BUILD directory for compiling, and will search for 
sources in SOURCE directroy.  Reseulting SRPM and RPM packages will be 
placed in appropriate places under SRPM and RPM/arch (where arch will 
probably be one of i386, i586, i686, and noarch when building x86 packages).

> in which repertory is the files '.menuconfig.log'
> because
> i want to use the menuconfig with:
> #make menuconfig

Config files used to build Fedora packaged kernels are stored in 
/boot/config-version file.  You can copy it to .config and use it as 
base for your custom compiled kernel.

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