Stock kernels

Michael K. Johnson johnsonm at redhat.com
Tue Aug 19 13:58:38 UTC 2003


On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 06:27:55AM +0200, Maynard Kuona wrote:
> Is ther any chance RHL could include stock kernel rpms for the guys who
> would like to run something different, or customize it as much as
> possible.
> 
> It doesn't have to be offered for installation, or it could be just the
> source rpms, from which we could then compile and make binary packages.

Just grab the tarball from the kernel src.rpm package, go in, configure
it however you want (you can use one of our configs as a base config if
you like, but it's not a requirement), and then to "make rpm" and you'll
get an rpm.  That's part of the base kernel now.

michaelkjohnson

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