Source for Fedora kernels
Matthew Saltzman
mjs at ces.clemson.edu
Fri Jan 5 02:49:16 UTC 2007
On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Is there somewhere I can find the source used to build the kernel RPMs
> available when updates occur? Not the naked source and hundreds of patches,
> but the real source in /usr/src/kernels which seems to be what interesting
> kernel features want? I really want to try KVM, having decided that xen just
> isn't working on FC6 with selinux functional.
>
> Trying to guess what patches were applied, in what order, and build source
> and kernel from scratch is a long painful process I really don't need.
> Moreover, it appears that the RPM kernl binaries are built with a compiler
> other than the default gcc4.x or the "compat" gcc3.x.
>
> I assume that the real source is available somewhere.
You still want the SRPM. I think you want to install it with rpm -ivh,
then start the build with rpmbuild -bp. That will apply the patches and
get you ready for the build step.
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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