Kernel build tree -- how to trim down

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Sun Apr 9 15:44:19 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 17:39 +0200, Mostafa Afgani wrote:
> On 4/9/06, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> > Is there some problem that needs the kernel to look exactly like the
> > stock one for yum?
> 
> Well, if I want to use the kernel modules from livna/extras, I need
> the version # to be identical. Just  a change in the SMP flag
> shouldn't break anything right? I'm leaving the rest of the
> configuration untouched.

Not sure; some of the modules might build differently with the SMP flag
set/not set. I'd be very wary of doing this. Could you not rebuild the
modules you need from the SRPMs, as you're doing with the kernel itself?

Paul.




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