and AJB kernel-2.6.35-3.bcat.src.rpm [I see AlanBartlett as the last editor on that page] I have installed the given ajb source rpm kernel-2.6.35-3.bcat.src.rpm, and verified that it is intact: [herrold at kernel-bleeder linux-2.6.35.i686]$ rpm -Vp ~/build/ajb/sources/kernel-2.6.35-3.bcat.src.rpm warning: /home/herrold/build/ajb/sources/kernel-2.6.35-3.bcat.src.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID baadae52 .....UGT config-2.6.35-i686 .....UGT config-2.6.35-i686-PAE .....UGT config-2.6.35-x86_64 missing kernel.spec missing linux-2.6.35.3.tar.bz2 [herrold at kernel-bleeder linux-2.6.35.i686]$ pwd /home/herrold/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-2.6.35/linux-2.6.35.i686 [herrold at kernel-bleeder linux-2.6.35.i686]$ The tarball and .spec are in the anticipated locales, and out of scope here; userids [UGT] are expected to differ [herrold at kernel-bleeder linux-2.6.35.i686]$ ls -l \ ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/ ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/kernel /home/herrold/rpmbuild/SOURCES/kernel: total 68064 -rw-r--r-- 1 herrold herrold 109943 Aug 21 13:08 config-2.6.35-i686 -rw-r--r-- 1 herrold herrold 109993 Aug 21 13:08 config-2.6.35-i686-PAE -rw-r--r-- 1 herrold herrold 105624 Aug 21 13:08 config-2.6.35-x86_64 -rw-r--r-- 1 herrold herrold 69267320 Aug 21 13:02 linux-2.6.35.3.tar.bz2 /home/herrold/rpmbuild/SPECS/: total 20 -rw-r--r-- 1 herrold herrold 15839 Aug 21 13:04 kernel.spec [herrold at kernel-bleeder linux-2.6.35.i686]$ ------------- The wiki page notes: | If you you do not intend to modify the distributed kernel | configuration file you may omit this section, as long as you | perform the equivalent of the final step: | | [user at host] $ cp \ | ~/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-2.6.18/linux-2.6.18.`uname -m`/configs/* \ | ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES which is curious, because at this point in the outline in section 2, ~/rpmbuild/BUILD/ should be empty I suspect there has been a: [herrold at kernel-bleeder ~]$ rpm -U \ ~/build/ajb/sources/kernel-2.6.35-3.bcat.src.rpm [herrold at kernel-bleeder ~]$ rpmbuild -bp \ ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/kernel.spec omitted here. Following on that assumption, I do those setps and cd into the prepared directory ------------- I follow the wiki outline branch involving using an existing config file out of /boot/, [user at host]$ cp /boot/config-`uname -r` .config and run the suggested make oldconfig and perform the edit to the top of the resulting .config to add the `uname -i ` comment on the first line ------------- The outline falls of the tracks here. It suggests: | Copy the .config file back to the configs/ directory. This is | basically the opposite of the earlier copy command: | | [user at host]$ cp .config configs/kernel-2.6.18-`uname -m`[-type].config [herrold at kernel-bleeder ~]$ find / -type d -name configs 2> /dev/null /home/herrold/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-2.6.35/linux-2.6.35.i386/arch/microblaze/configs /home/herrold/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-2.6.35/linux-2.6.35.i386/arch/cris/configs /home/herrold/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-2.6.35/linux-2.6.35.i386/arch/sparc/configs /home/herrold/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-2.6.35/linux-2.6.35.i386/arch/mn10300/configs /home/herrold/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-2.6.35/linux-2.6.35.i386/arch/mips/configs /home/herrold/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-2.6.35/linux-2.6.35.i386/arch/x86/configs /home/herrold/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-2.6.35/linux-2.6.35.i386/arch/m32r/configs /home/herrold/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-2.6.35/linux-2.6.35.i386/arch/score/configs /home/herrold/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-2.6.35/linux-2.6.35.i386/arch/avr32/configs /home/herrold/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-2.6.35/linux-2.6.35.i386/arch/m68knommu/configs /home/herrold/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-2.6.35/linux-2.6.35.i386/arch/powerpc/configs /home/herrold/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-2.6.35/linux-2.6.35.i386/arch/parisc/configs /home/herrold/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-2.6.35/linux-2.6.35.i386/arch/xtensa/configs /home/herrold/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-2.6.35/linux-2.6.35.i386/arch/blackfin/configs /home/herrold/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-2.6.35/linux-2.6.35.i386/arch/arm/configs /home/herrold/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-2.6.35/linux-2.6.35.i386/arch/m68k/configs /home/herrold/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-2.6.35/linux-2.6.35.i386/arch/sh/configs /home/herrold/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-2.6.35/linux-2.6.35.i386/arch/ia64/configs [herrold at kernel-bleeder ~]$ The problem here: several candidates to copy to are possible, and although I assume an arch dependent choice is proper: ~/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-2.6.35/linux-2.6.35.i386/arch/x86/configs the reader is left to wonder ------------- The outline next goes off into .spec file edits, and does not stop to roll and position a new tarball I think some steps are missing that need to be done first: cd ~/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-2.6.35 mv linux-2.6.35.i386 linux-2.6.35.3 tar cf linux-2.6.35.3.tar linux-2.6.35.3 bzip2 linux-2.6.35.3.tar cp linux-2.6.35.3.tar.bz2 ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES or such? The .spec file seems to key off of: %define LKAver 2.6.35.3 ------------- So open questions working through the article are: 1. is there a missing preparatory rpm based unpack and rpmbuild -bp 2. what is the proper place for the new .config, taking into account the target arch 3. is there a missing directory rename and tarball re-roll ------------- Not unexpectedly, these are raised in the context of packaging and getting to a non-root build of pathscale's pscnv 'gpgpu module' as raised on another mailing list earlier this week I raise them here [centos-docs ML] rather than adding QUERY in the articles -- Russ herrold
