Custom Kernel Creation Documentation Online

[James Mckenzie]

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>
Sent: Feb 8, 2005 11:01 AM
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Custom Kernel Creation Documentation Online

David Cary Hart wrote:
> I put up a page here:
> 
>               http://www.tqmcube.com/fc3_custom_kernel.htm
> 
> I tried to provide a very simple to follow set of instructions. This is
> one of those things that is far easier to do than to explain.
> 
> I WOULD GREATLY APPRECIATE: Corrections, feedback, etc.

Why use a user "nobody" for building the packages when there is already 
a user called "nobody" defined for a different purpose? Why not use, 
say, "rpmbuild" instead?

Why chown system directories like /usr/src/redhat/* instead of just 
creating an rpm-build tree in the user's home directory?

------James' Reply-----
(Stupid Web Mail system, I wish they would fix it.)
Paul and David:

I just tried to build the 2.6.11-rc3 kernel and it took about 1GB  of space.  I don't think we have user home directories with that amount of space (at least I don't).

I am using a special partition to build my kernels in and that has plenty of space for kernel builds.

That might be a better suggestion.

Also, I agree, nobody is a special user and some folks have disabled/disallowed actions by this user.  Paul's suggestion of 'rpmbuild' is a good one.

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James McKenzie
A Proud User of Linux!