Re: Building an i686 kernel rpm

[rpjday <rpjday mindspring com>]

On Thu, 30 May 2002, James Olin Oden wrote:

> > 
> > On Thu, 30 May 2002 mgoins@kcp.com wrote:
> > 
> > > I just needed to add one patch and I thought this would be faster, and I
> > > wanted to try and stay a close as could to the default redhat.
> > 
> > you're not losing anything by using the kernel-source RPM.  i'm suspecting
> > you might not appreciate the difference between the kernel-source and
> > kernel "src" RPMs.
> > 
> > unless you need to see the "pristine" kernel source, as well as the redhat
> > patches to that, go with kernel-source.

> But if you want to generate a kernel RPM, you must go with the SRPM for the
> RH kernel...right?

i'm not sure this thread is really appropriate for this mailing list,
but perhaps i'm misunderstanding what this person is after.

if he wants to build a whole new binary kernel RPM, then sure, he'd
start with the kernel src RPM.

but it sounded like he just wanted to build a new kernel with a
small patch, for which the kernel source RPM and running "make
xconfig" would work just fine.

rday