Kernel Rebuilding

Lonni J Friedman netllama at gmail.com
Wed Nov 22 16:42:02 UTC 2006


On 11/22/06, Tony Nelson <tonynelson at georgeanelson.com> wrote:
> At 10:28 PM -0500 11/21/06, Kurt Wall wrote:
> >Eh, I'm trying to build a new kernel. The release notes
> >(http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc6/en_US/sn-Kernel.html) are
> >spot on up to this point at the end of section 8.6:
> >
> >       "Normally, kernels for Fedora are built using the rpmbuild utility
> >and a specfile. Your results may vary if you use the kernel's built-in
> >make rpm target."
> >
> >So, is "rpmbuild -bb --target=$(uname -m) kernel-2.6.spec" the command I want?
>
> I think:
>
>     rpmbuild --rebuild -bb --target=$(uname -m) kernel-xxx.src.rpm
>
> This builds a new binary package and removes the source.  If you want the
> source:
>
>     rpmbuild --recompile -bp --target=$(uname -m) kernel-xxx.src.rpm

What you posted only rebuilds a pre-existing kernel SRPM.  I think
Kurt wanted to build a new kernel.org kernel into an RPM.  Although
I'm pretty sure that kerne.org kernels have included a 'make rpm'
target for a while now, so that might be alot easier than trying to
figure out 'the fedora way'.


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