Kernel Rebuild Question

Mostafa Z. Afgani mostafa.afgani at world.iu-bremen.de
Wed Jan 5 17:11:29 UTC 2005


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Ernie McCracken wrote:
| On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 11:40:58AM -0500, Alex Ackerman wrote:
|
|>   This is probably so easy it's embarrassing to ask, but I'm trying to
|>   rebuild the kernel using the source rpm. I need the i686 kernel,
but not
|>   the i686 smp kernel.  I'm currently using:
|>
|>   $ rpmbuild --rebuild --target i686 kernel-2.6.x-x.x.src.rpm
|>
|>   What am I missing? It's taking WAY too long to rebuild the kernel rpm
|>   (~1.5 - 2 hours) when it build both. I have a Centrino 1.7GHz
laptop with
|>   1GB ram. Hopefully, by only building 1 of the kernel rpm packages I can
|>   speed up the process.  Thanks for your help.
|
|
| In the kernel-2.6.spec file, change the following line:
|
| %define buildsmp 1
|
| to
|
| %define buildsmp 0
|
|
Just curious, if he is using the --rebuild option, where's he going to
get the *.spec file?

- -M
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