-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Frank Hamersley wrote: | 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 | Frank, (1) Because you said you unpacked the .tar.bz2 file. We can safely assume you have the .src.rpm file was what you have. (2) Check for the files in /usr/src/redhat.... You should see directories: ~ (a) BUILD ... where the RPM builder unpacks the source to and applies patches to. ~ (b) SOURCES ... where the RPM builder gets the sources / patches / etc for the build process. ~ (c) SPECS ... where the RPM builder gets the spec files for building the package. NOTE: ~ The kernel package is not the easiest package to tackle your first time. It may be better to build from the sources in /usr/src/linux-2.4 directory first. If you updated the kernel-sources-*.rpm file then you have the latest patched kernel sources there. ~ Be careful, especially with the kernel. You can really cause problems if you don't know what you are doing. ~ First, read the documentation for the latest release of iptables... Look for dependencies on a specific kernel version or iptables modules. ~ Next, compare the source for the iptables modules with the patched sources for the 7.3 kernel and be sure you will not be breaking anything. ~ Next, try the patches you create on the /usr/src/linux-2.4 kernel directory by building a custom kernel you can boot from and try.... carefully. Good Luck, James Kosin -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFC8jLkkNLDmnu1kSkRApnoAJ0SCEWiLl2cuHt3IUfHMLPGd1mtcACePq60 upRSVzrrZhWUKEzhW+sjWnQ= =zFkJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
