rpm build/pa issues

[Ted X Toth]

Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 07:41 -0500, Ted X Toth wrote:
>   
>> Paul W. Frields wrote:
>>     
>>> On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 18:25 -0500, Jay Cliburn wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Xavier Toth wrote:
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>>>> I downloaded the rawhide kernel sources and tried to make a i686 rpm.
>>>>> Following the instructions on
>>>>> http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc6test2/  I ran 'rpmbuild
>>>>> -bp --target i686 kernel-2.6.spec' then copied
>>>>> configs/kernel-2.6.17-i686.config to .config and edited the Makefile
>>>>> changing EXTRAVERSION = -prep to EXTRAVERSION = -1.2647.fc6. I then
>>>>> did a 'make oldconfig' (unclear why this is necessary since the copied
>>>>> a prebuilt config file already) and then 'make rpm'. The result of the
>>>>> make is rpmbuild/RPMS/i386/kernel-2.6.171.2647.fc6-1.i386.rpm and
>>>>> there are several issues with this:
>>>>> 1) a i386 rpm was produced not a i686 rpm
>>>>> 2) the EXTRAVERSION losses its '-' and so is run up against the kernel
>>>>> version in the file name '2.6.171.2647.fc6'
>>>>>
>>>>> Are the instruction correct? Are these bugs in the build system?
>>>>>
>>>>> Ted
>>>>>
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>> Despite what anyone on this list tells you to the contrary, the dash _will_ be 
>>>> removed when you run "make rpm".
>>>> See ~/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-<vers>/linux-<vers>/scripts/package/Makefile at line 30.
>>>>
>>>> Also see this thread. 
>>>> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2006-August/msg00272.html
>>>>
>>>> So yes, the Release Notes are incorrect.  You need to use a period, not a dash, 
>>>> in the EXTRAVERSION field if you intend to "make rpm".
>>>>         
>>> The Release Notes don't address specifically building a new kernel RPM.
>>> The typical Fedora-specific way for building the kernel AIUI would be to
>>> use rpmbuild and the specfile, as for other RPMs.  Doing so makes
>>> EXTRAVERSION work as expected, and (when using --target=i686) generates
>>> the expected .i686.rpm kernel(s).  I'll add a sentence or two to the
>>> Release Notes that discusses this.
>>>   
>>>       
>> Could you include them here now also, please?
>>     
>
> Rather than using "make srpm" from within the BUILD/kernel*/linux*
> folder, you can include your custom config file(s) in the SOURCES/
> folder, edit the specfile as needed, and do "rpmbuild -ba --target=i686
> SPECS/kernel-2.6.spec" to build your custom kernel.
>
>   
I appreciate your help but please understand I'm not a kernel developer 
but rather an application developer who needs, at times, to use the 
latest kernel. With that in mind which "custom config files(s)" are you 
referring to that I'd need to move to SOURCES? What edits if any need to 
be made in SPECS/kernel-2.6.spec if all I'm trying to do is create a 
binary rpm for the specified architecture?

Ted