More strangeness kernel-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3 update

[Philip Prindeville]

Matthew Miller wrote:

>On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 06:44:44PM -0600, Philip Prindeville wrote:
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>>cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
>>rpmbuild -bc --target x86_64 --buildroot /usr/src kernel-2.6.spec
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>                               ^^^^^^^^^^^
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>>after installing the kernel source RPM, then some very bad things happen.
>>It tries to do an "rm -rf *" inside /usr/src.  Ouch.  That's not right!
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>yeah don't do that!
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Now you tell me. ;-)

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>>What's the standard way to get the source RPM to unpack into
>>/usr/src/kernels
>>and build in there?
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>Any particular reason you want that? (Other than habit, I mean....)
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Well, various other software expects to find things in there, and won't 
autoinstall
when it isn't.

-Philip