removing old Kernels

[Jim Cornette]

Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote:
> Greetings Jim,
> 
> Jim Cornette wrote:
>> Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote:
>>> Greetings Brian ,
> 
> < snip >
> 
>> Is it possible to run make rpm and get a compiled version of the kernel? 
> 
> I will fail you on that . All i can suggest is this . Get the 
> kernel-source-version.rpm . This is essentially the "rpm version of the
> tarball" . Then run rpmbuild --rebuild and make the kernel rpm .

I think I ran the make xconfig, pick the desired kernel options and save 
the file. I then ran make on the  other steps with making the image and 
modules, installed the modules and then ran make rpm (or RPM, I cannot 
recall exactly.) It might have been from a redhat source rpm but I 
thought I was doing this with the vanilla source.
Too bad it was  not from the vanilla source file.

> 
> 
>> I have not compiled a kernel in awhile. I seem to recall doing this on 
>> the vanilla kernel source. After you compile the rpm, you could remove
>> it with the usual rpm -e  <kernel-custom> command.
>>
>> You could try make rpm.
> 
> No rule to make target rpm . Do you by any chance mean ,
> rpmbuild ? rpmbuild will fail because the top level directory doesn't 
> have the spec file needed to do the job .

No, this was just compiling the kernel from source. I downloaded the 
vanilla source to see if I can still remember how to compile the kernel, 
plus my curiosity regarding the make rpm. Is there by chance an rpm 
directory in the tree where you need to be in as the CWD before the 
script works? Anyway, I'll examine the source file to see if I can 
recall to where the make rpm was from.

> 
> Anyway what do i have to loose if i just go ahead without using
> an rpm and compile the kernel the old fashioned way . I don't understand 
> the problem to the stability of the system if the rpmdatabase isn't 
> aware of the kernel being running.

The rpm database should not realize any non-rpm packaged files on your 
system. I don't think rpm checks for the running kernel before removing 
an rpm. It just checks for installed rpms and checks dependencies of rpm 
installed packages.

sorry for the false lead.

Jim

> 
> Kostas
> 


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