RE: still -- building kernel rpm problem

["Rokicki, Andrew" <ARokicki US TIAuto com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Chuck Campbell [SMTP:campbell accelinc com]
> Sent:	Friday, December 05, 2003 12:07 PM
> To:	redhat-install-list redhat com; redhat-list redhat com
> Subject:	still -- building kernel rpm problem
> 
> 
> I didn't hear any response, so I re-downloaded the
> kernel-2.4.20-24.9.src.rpm
> and tried again.  I still see the same thing during build. (See prior note
> 
> below).
> 
> I'm loathe to reboot w/ the new kernel to try it, because the machine is
> 50 miles away from me, and I can't get there easily to access the console
> to force a boot of the prior kernel.
> 
> Is there a way around this issue for remote machines?
> 
> thanks,
> -chuck
> 
> Chuck previously wrote:
> 
> > I downloaded the recently released kernel-2.4.20-24.9.src.rpm and did an
> > install as root. rpm -Uvh kernel-2.4.20-24.9.src.rpm
> > 
> > Next I went to the /usr/src/redhat/SPECS directory and did this:
> > 
> > rpmbuild -ba --clean --target i686 kernel-2.4.spec
> > 
> > during this build I have seen amny occurrences of the following message:
> > 
> > 1 of 13 checksums did not match
> > 
> > What implications does this have for this build, and what should I do
> about it?
> > 
> > 
> > I wanted to build this specifically for the i686 platform, instead of 
> > installing i386 binaries.  This is (ostensibly) for performance reasons.
> Is my
> > reasoning all wet?
> > 
> > thanks,
> > -chuck
> > 
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	Sounds like you are not getting any responses.

	I am no expert on this but -U option upgrades existing package. I is
possible that there is nothing to upgrade.
	Try -i option 
	Red Hat has a how to do this. I did this 168 days age, I know
because my server is still running.