recompiling kernel for centos 4.2 x86_64

[maze at cela.pl (Maciej Żenczykowski)]

>> Does it have any i[3,4,5,6]86 rpms installed on it other than glibc.i686
>> and glibc-devel.i386 ... if so, you will need to either uninstall those
>> other RPMS ...OR... create a pure x86_64 chroot with only those i
>> [3,4,5,6]86 rpms installed.
>
> This is all I have installed:
>
> glibc-common-2.3.4-2.13
> glibc-kernheaders-2.4-9.1.98.EL
> glibc-devel-2.3.4-2.13
> glibc-2.3.4-2.13
> glibc-2.3.4-2.13
> glibc-headers-2.3.4-2.13

You should probably include the architecture...
add "%_query_all_fmt %%{name}-%%{version}-%%{release}.%%{arch}"
to ~/.rpmmacros

> I'm trying to add the xfs and reiserfs module (the centosplus kernel
> package has an unsupported which I don't want to use).  I realized
> that it was you who packaged this unsupported kernel.  How did you go
> about adding the module?  The procedure I used to add these in CentOS
> 4.1 i686 doesn't seem to work.

Why not use the unsupported kernel from centosplus? It obviously has what 
you need and it's probably done better than you can do it yourself (and 
decidedly less work there...).  Indeed you can even just download and 
install just the reiserfs.ko from it... [that's even more unsupported 
but it does work] :)

Cheers,
MaZe.