Follow-up - kernel.src Issue

[David Cary Hart]

On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 15:56 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:

> Not an "official" comment, but the method described at:
> http://crab-lab.zool.ohiou.edu/kevin/kernel-compilation-tutorial-en/steps.html
> uses "make menuconfig" (or your favourite GUI version) and does not 
> require the creation of a kernel-source package, nor hand-editing of the 
> config files. This does appear to be the "official" way of building 
> kernels, and results in an RPM too, which is good, isn't it?
> 
That works BUT is far more time consuming and lacks the portability of
creating kernel-source.rpm. I don't really care about the kernel rpm; I
require the source tree in /usr/src for some options anyway - eg TARPIT.
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