Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=204070 Summary: Incorrect instructions to rebuild a fedora kernel Product: Fedora Core Version: fc5 Platform: i686 OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: normal Component: fedora-release-notes AssignedTo: jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx ReportedBy: wet@xxxxxxxxxxx QAContact: qa-dept-list@xxxxxxxxxx CC: relnotes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Description of problem: Release notes from http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc5/release-notes-ISO/#id3092710 Section 8.6 Preparing for Kernel Development tell me: Prepare the kernel sources using the commands: cd ~/rpmbuild/SPECS rpmbuild -bp --target $(uname -m) kernel-2.6.spec The kernel source tree is located in the ${HOME}/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-<version>/ directory. This is not correct for FC5; when following the procedure the directory .../BUILD/kernel-<version>/ contains: # ls -p rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-2.6.17/ Config.mk linux-2.6.17.i686/ vanilla/ xen/ xen-20060708/ So I assume the kernel "sources" of a version I want to build myself are in one these subdirectories, but this is different from the current wording of the release notes. The box a few lines above "Do Not Build Packages as Super-user" has the directory (almost) correct: ~/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-<version>/linux-<version> Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
