best recipe for building a new kernel on fedora 20?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Tue, 11 Feb 2014, Heinz Diehl wrote:

> On 10.02.2014, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> > uh, no. if that's all you specify, you get *way* more packages than
> > just kernel and kernel-devel -- when my build worked earlier today, i
> > think i counted 11. so that claim is a massive underestimate, but i'll
>
> You can do it another way:
>
> 1. Take the .config from Fedora (/boot/config-xxxx) as a starting
> point, or create your own one
> 2. Download the latest kernel source from kernel.org and extract it
> 3. Copy your .config into the root of the source-tree
> 4. make oldconfig
> 5. make
> 6. make modules_install
> 7. make install
> 8. Reboot
>
> This kernel will live peacefully alongside with your existing Fedora
> kernel(s).

  well, sure, but that's definitely not equivalent to building from
the official fedora source rpm, which comes with red hat-supplied
patches.

rday

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