RE: RedHat kernel RPMs?

[John Aldrich <john chattanooga net>]

On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John Aldrich [mailto:john@chattanooga.net]
> > 
> > On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> > > How does RedHat manage to produce kernel RPMs for 
> > i586/i686?  I just ran rpm
> > > --rebuild kernel-2.2.16-3.src.rpm, but it only came back 
> > with i386 binaries,
> > > and I'm wondering how badly mangled things will be if I just use my
> > > home-grown optimizations on the kernel.  Anybody tried this 
> > and care to
> > > offer advice?  Thanks,
> > >
> > rpm --rebuild --target=<i386/i486...> kernel-2.2.16-3.src.rpm
> 
> What flags does RedHat use to produce their packages (what is their rpmrc
> definition for i686)?  Is the kernel spec file smart enough to change
> .config in the kernel sources directory so that it's building code for i586
> rrather than for i386?  There's a lot more to optimizing the kernel than
> there is any normal user space program.
>
I dunno. All I know is you *should* be able to do as I suggest
above... someone else basically said the same thing, so other than
that I haven't a clue.
	John