Kernel Compiling

[Mark Bidewell]

Personally, I download the latest vanilla source from www.kernel.org and 
do a make binrpn-pkg.  Read up on mkinitrd.

Mark Bidewell

Robby Tanner wrote:

>Where can I read up on the release process?  For example, I have a bunch
>of patches (2.6.x etc) and a couple of files called "final" and one with
>a bk2 in it.  There was mention of an rpmbuild command.  In what order
>and how do I apply the patches and/or tarballs?
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>Where are the patches available to update me to the new kernel?
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>Rob
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com 
>>[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Alexander Dalloz
>>Sent: Monday, July 04, 2005 10:00 AM
>>To: For users of Fedora Core releases
>>Subject: Re: Kernel Compiling
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>>>What are bk2 files for?  Presumably that's in the release 
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>>notes as well?
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>>No, the release notes do not explain that. That is something 
>>which belongs to the process how changes, fixes etc. to the 
>>official kernel sources are named. It think "bk" stands for 
>>BitKeeper (formerly used tool use by Linus to handle the 
>>sources), while other suffixes note patch sets by kernel 
>>hackers (like -ac<number> for Alan Cox).
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>>>Rob
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>>Alexander
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