[SOLVED] Re: Kernel SRPM questions

[Andre Costa]

Just to follow up on this, all suggestions were excellent and rebuilding
SRPMs using my own .config file is now possible, and final kernel
carries the version number as expected. Thanks to all who replied.

Best,

Andre

On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 13:08:46 -0200
Andre Costa <acosta at ar.microlink.com.br> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am used to configuring my own kernels, because I drop a lot of stuff
> I don't really use. Lately, kernel-source RPMs have been deprecated in
> favor of SRPMs. I do can build new versions from them, but there are a
> couple of issues:
> 
> 1. I generate kernel sources with
> 
> 	rpmbuild --target i686 -bp kernel-2.6.spec
> 
> and then I move the resulting
> .../redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.9/linux-2.6.9 to /usr/src/linux , and then
> do 'make bzImage modules modules_install install' (usually after a
> 'make oldconfig' using my own .config file).
> 
> Previous kernel sources appended version numbers (eg. -1.667) to
> kernel "signature" (uname -r); current sources simply append "-prep"
> (this happened both with 681 and 724 versions). IMHO this is bad
> because it simply overrides any existing -prep version with the new
> one, demanding some manual work to ensure a previous, bootable kernel
> still exists.
> 
> 2. there's no support for 'athlon' architecture
> 
> I have an athlon-XP CPU, and if I plainly run 'rpmbuild -bp
> kernel-2.6.spec' it barfs that athlon is not supported and bails out.
> Browsing through spec file I couldn't indeed find specific support
> for it. Any special reason for that?
> 
> I know I might be doing something wrong for not using rpm the whole
> way trhough, but shouldn't the above procedure work? (I'd be more than
> glad to do it provided I could use my own tweaked configure file) Any
> relevant points I am missing?
> 
> TIA, and happy new year to everybody,
> 
> Andre
> 
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