RHEL4 and Kernel Build from Source incl. xen source

[Rick Stevens]

Thomas.vonSteiger at swisscom.com wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I like to patch the RHEL4 Kernel with xen Source.
> For this i need kernel.src.rpm, kernel-devel.rpm and xen Source.
> With "rpmbuild --bp" i can create BUILD tree with all patches.
> How i can go forward now with kernel-devel and /usr/src/redhat/BUILD 
> Kernel Source ?
> Is there a howto about this, using kernel-devel with kernel.src for RHEL4 ?

Well, "kernel-devel" is essentially the same thing as the old 
"kernel-source" RPM for the 2.4 kernels.  It installs the kernel source
in "/usr/src/kernels/(kernel-version-number)" as opposed to the old 2.4
location of "/usr/src/linux-(kernel-version)".

In the future, either just install the "kernel-devel" RPM -OR- download,
install, and "rpmbuild" the kernel source RPM.  You don't need to do
both.

At this point, just "cd /download/directory;rpm -ivh kernel-devel*" as
root and get on with building Xen.
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