Installing kernel-<version>.src.rpm under my own build root

[Neil Cherry]

Tony Nelson wrote:
> At 7:00 PM -0500 1/9/06, Robert L Cochran wrote:
>> I have this kernel file downloaded to ~
>> [rlc at bobcp4 ~]$ ls -al kernel*
>> -rw-rw-r--  1 rlc rlc 40523094 Jan  9 18:53 kernel-2.6.14-1.1656_FC4.src.rpm
>>
>> Which I want to install in the rpm build root in my home directory (so
>> it is not in /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES):
>>
>> drwxrwxr-x   7 rlc  rlc       4096 Jan  5 00:36 rpmbuild
>> -rw-rw-r--   1 rlc  rlc        135 Jan  5 00:36 .rpmmacros
>>
>> For a kernel build, does doing this make sense? Or should I be
>> installing to /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES and /usr/src/redhat/SPECS?
> 
> Since you have the rpmbuild stuff set up, something like:
> 
>     $ rpmbuild --recompile -bp --target i6867 kernel-2.6.14-1.1656_FC4.src.rpm
> 
> will install the source.  --rebuild or --recompile are needed in order to
> work from a src.rpm rather than a specfile.

How does one use a custom config with rebuild? I need to turn on a
bunch of things (moxa driver for instance).

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