Make rpm

[Christoph Wickert]

Am Mi, den 21.01.2004 schrieb Mike Westkamper um 16:02:
>  My quote:	This is actually fun.
> Nostalgia:	Reminds me of my times doing sysgen's on an IBM 7090.
> 
> Thanks to the support here and RedHat's Fedora distribution I have a master
> Fedora based system that serves as the code source for all the other Fedora
> boxes, 22 at last count.
> 
> Next, each of the 22 other boxes needs a custom kernel, special SCSI
> support. Rather than doing a build on each box I plan to make my own kernel
> distribution of the latest kernel with the necessary re-configuration.
> 
> I have read through several sources about "make rpm". Each has caveats and
> none seem directed to Fedora. Can anyone recommend a tested procedure to
> make an kernel rpm distribution compatible with the Fedora distribution?

Sorry, this is a german link :-)
http://linuxwiki.de/LinuxKernel#head-93c15f8b759a9c8d3b88e3b214f0d158da53510d

read 3.2.2 (make rpm for vanilla kernel) and 3.2.3 (special RH
instructions), worked for me. Be sure to run "make mrproper" and "make
oldconfig" (2x!)

Christoph