Thanks for the prompt reply Alexander .... > -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-legacy-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-legacy-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Alexander > Dalloz > Sent: Friday, 5 August 2005 12:29 AM > To: Discussion of the Fedora Legacy Project > Subject: Re: Building Fedora Legacy 2.4.20-43.7 for RH7.3 > from sources. > > Am Do, den 04.08.2005 schrieb Frank Hamersley um 16:22: > > > Can anyone point me to a useful howto on building the > latest Fedora RH73 > > legacy kernel from source? > > Could you be specific about what you want to do differently > than the FLP > package does for the resulting kernel rpm? There must be a reason to > compile your own, but with the legacy kernel source. Partially a learning exercise, but mostly I want to freshen my iptables to the latest stable and decided that I should go all the way through from first principles ie. starting with the kernel. > > I have installed the src rpm (2.4.20-43.7) and unpacked the > .tar.bz2 file. > > However I am confused about how to apply the .patch files > (as they do not > > seem to be applied to the source). > > > Can anyone provide enlightenment? Cheers, Frank. > > Use the spec file which is located in SPECS. "rpmbuild --help" -> > > -bp build through %prep (unpack > sources and > apply > patches) from <specfile> Just about to hit the sack here (12:41 AM Sydney). Will look at this tomorrow...but did not notice any SPECS directory after installing the rpm. Will check again in daylight. Cheers, Frank. -- fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
