Re: Kernel compilation from src.rpm

[Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora leemhuis info>]

Am Montag, den 30.01.2006, 14:01 -0500 schrieb Kevin H. Hobbs:
> On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 13:35 -0500, Stephane Gaucher wrote:
> > Is it possible to re-compile the exact kernel from the
> > kernel-xyz.src.rpm !?! 
> 
> Yes, you could do it as root in /usr/src/redhat/ or as a regular user by
> putting the following in your ~/.rpmmacros.
> 
> 	# ~/.rpmmacros
> 	%packager %(echo "$USER")
> 	%_topdir %(echo "$HOME")/rpmbuild
> 
> Then create the directories that rpmbuild needs.
> 
> 	mkdir ~/rpmbuild 
> 	mkdir ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES 
> 	mkdir ~/rpmbuild/RPMS 
> 	mkdir ~/rpmbuild/BUILD 
> 	mkdir ~/rpmbuild/SRPMS

Or simply run as root:

# yum install fedora-rpmdevtools

And then as user:

$ fedora-buildrpmtree 

(This actually creates a proper ~/.rpmmacros, the ~/rpmbuild directory
and all the requires dirs below it from above description.)

And then:

> Then rebuild the kernel.
> 
> 	rpmbuild --rebuild kernel-xyz.src.rpm

HTH

CU
thl
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Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora leemhuis info>