Obtaining 2.6.8-1.541 source code

[Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha]

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)

Regards,
Luciano Rocha