Rolling Own Kernel

Kevin H. Hobbs kevin.hobbs.1 at ohiou.edu
Tue May 24 18:44:16 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 19:35 +0100, Mary Ellen Foster wrote:

> I'd always thought that rpmbuild -bb started the whole build process
> right from scratch, and that there was no point in doing -bp before
> -bb because it would all get overwritten. Is this wrong? The rpmbuild
> man page says:
> 
>  -bb    Build a binary package  (after  doing  the  %prep,  %build,  and
>               %install stages).

You're right -bp or -ba will destroy the .config. That's why I copied it
to the source directory.
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