How does one install kernel*.src.rpm ?
Peter Reed
mrdeadworry at crosspaths.net
Sun Oct 23 22:42:30 UTC 2005
Stuart Sears wrote:
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>Peter Reed enlightened us with the following gems on 23/10/05 17:11:
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>>akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
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>>>An alternative is to run: rpmbuild --rpmbuild ..src.rpm (i.e, source
>>>rpm)
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>>>The goal is to end up with a regular rpm file which could be installed
>>>with the rpm command in the usual way.
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>>I have benn trying the same thing to install the kernel sources and keep
>>coming up with the same or either way you do the rpmbuild.
>>error: line 155: Illegal char '-' in release: Release: 1.1532_FC4......
>>Any ideas?
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>Make sure that the "Release:" line in your spec file doesn't contain a -
>sign?
>That's the only thing you can't put in, IIRC.
>if for example you have something like this:
>Release: 1.1532_FC4-myversion
>change it to
>Release: 1.1532_FC4.myversion
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>and then try again
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>Stuart
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>Stuart Sears RHCE RHCX
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I see what you are saying however it seems to be grabbing my host name
and adding it to the Release line: error: line 155: Illegal char '-' in
release: Release: 1.1532_FC4.preed at 6722-195-67
Any ideas how to get rid of that.
Peter
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