CVS - kernel config files, where are they?

[Dave Jones]

On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 09:31:46PM +0000, Nick Smith wrote:
 > I'm trying to build a kernel SRPM from the current CVS tree. Having read 
 > the docs and checked out the sources, I get as far as (from kernel/devel)
 > 
 > [root at localhost devel]# make
 >  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time
 > Current
 >                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left
 > Speed
 > 100 35.3M  100 35.3M    0     0   195k      0  0:03:05  0:03:05 --:--:--
 > 236k
 > -rw-r--r--  1 root root 37075679 Mar  6 22:22 linux-2.6.11.tar.bz2
 >  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time
 > Current
 >                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left
 > Speed
 > 100 3323k  100 3323k    0     0   193k      0  0:00:17  0:00:17 --:--:--
 > 236k
 > -rw-r--r--  1 root root 3403237 Apr  6 22:24 patch-2.6.12-rc2.bz2
 > make: *** No rule to make target `configs/config-i686', needed by 
 > `kernel-2.6.11-i686.config'.  Stop.
 > 
 > The source trees I checked out ("cvs co kernel" with
 > CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous at cvs.fedora.redhat.com:/cvs/dist) do not seem to 
 > contain any configs
 > 
 > Perhaps somebody would be kind enough to point out where I am going wrong

As far as I can tell, this is a flaw of the current internal CVS -> external
CVS mirroring.  It doesn't seem to handle subdirectories.

In the meantime until it gets fixed, I've placed the current configs/
dir for rawhide at http://people.redhat.com/davej/configs/

		Dave