Kernel update

[Thomas Tschoepke Soares]

On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 16:45 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Rohan Kulkarni wrote:
> 
> >             How do I update to the latest kernel version and then build it
> > without using YUM?I have the 2.6.21.1 kernel and want to
> >             upgrade to 2.6.21.5.
> 
> Do you mean you want to compile it?
> You can get any vanilla version from www.kernel.org .
> You have to say something like "make xconfig"
> and then specify your configuration choices -
> or get the choices in one of the distribution kernels.
> Then you say "make".

I know how to do this, have been doing for a long time.

But:

After de "make bzImage" and "make modules" how to generate the .RPMs to
install the new kernel ?

I also know how to doing manually... but it seems to be more correct
stay using the RPM to manage a system that is based on this package
manager.





> Either way it is very time-consuming.
> 
> 
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