Request: Correct procedure on how to build a custom kernel on Centos

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On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 07:15:40AM -0800, Bogdan Nicolescu wrote:
> This topic seems to be a perennial question.  So I
> don't ruffle any feathers like in
> http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2006-February/001400.html
> could someone point once and for all to an
> authoritative guide on a complete/proper/correct
> procedure on building and installing a custom kernel
> using the rpmbuild method rather than the traditional
> method.

<Half_Authoritative>

The way I would do it:
1) Get the src.rpm
2) Install it
3) Replace the kernel source tarball
4) Change the version on the specfile
5) Try to build
6) Rinse and repeat (#5 & #6), until it builds the way I want,
   removing already applied patches and changing the ones needed
   accordingly.

</Half_Authoritative>

- -- 
Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
"Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur"
"Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns)

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