EL4 ES kernel recompile

[Dave Francis]

Hi Ed

Thanks for your info. I will give that a try later in the week. For today,
paperwork calls. :(

Cheers
Dave
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Greshko [mailto:Ed.Greshko at greshko.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, 10 May 2005 9:54 a.m.
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: Re: EL4 ES kernel recompile



Dave Francis wrote:
> Hi Murthy
> 
> Thanks heaps for that. I tried the rpmbuild of the kernel like you 
> said, but that failed. (output below).
> The question is do I have to be more specific in my rpmbuild command, 
> because of the other kernels that are installed?
> The kernel I am running is the kernel-2.6.9-5.0.5.EL. I saw somewhere 
> that the rpmbuild command uses the last listing in the rpm -q command??

FWIW, I have rebuilt the RHELv4 kernels using the following procedure.

1.  Created a ~/.rpmmacros file with a single entry for %_topdir pointing to
a directory in my user space and created the directory structures as in
/usr/src/redhat.

2.  Installed the most recent kernel src.rpm.  (Installs in %_topdir as
noted above.)

3.  Edit the appropriate config file in SOURCES.  In my case it tends to be
kernel-2.6.9-i686-smp.config....but I may also edit kernel-2.6.9-i686.config
to get the UP rpm.

4.  From my ~ directory run "rpmbuild -ba --target i686
~/$%_topdir/SPECS/kernel-2.6.spec

Then wait a bit.  Assuming my changes to the config files were "appropriate"
everything builds and I have the rpm needed.

Regards,
Ed

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