Obtaining 2.6.8-1.541 source code

[Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha]

On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 11:54:48AM +0100, Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 10:42:29PM -0700, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> > Some background - I'm running FC3-test on an Asus M6BN laptop. This 
> > means the only option to get my modem and wireless card working are the 
> > drivers from Linuxant, which means I need 16k driver stacks.
> > 
> > And that works fine - I'm currently running a patched 2.6.8.1 kernel, 
> > based on the kernel.org tarball.
> > 
> > However, what I would prefer is to start with the source code and 
> > .config used to build the current FC3 kernel.
> > 
> > `yum info kernel` shows 2.6.8-1.541 living in the `development` repository.
> > 
> > `yum info kernel-source` shows only a 2.6.6 kernel version, living in 
> > `fedora-updates-testing`.
> > 
> > The 541 src RPM from fedora.redhat.com drops a vanilla tarball, and a 
> > collection of patch & config files into /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES, but 
> > doesn't seem to give any guidance on combining those into a given kernel 
> > version. I would assume it is important to at least apply the patches in 
> > the correct order (which may or may not be alphabetical order).
> 
> It also drops a spec file into /usr/src/redhat/SPECS.
> 
> It has instructions on how to build the package. If you want to
> "prepare" the package (extract the sources and patch them), run
> rpmbuild -bp /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/kernel*
> 
> The "prepared" source will end in /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel*
> 
> (-bc to compile, -bb to generate a rpm package)
> 

I forgot, add a --target i686 option to rpmbuild.

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