On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 04:15:45PM +0200, Axel Thimm wrote: > Say you have neither a running nor an installed kernel, only the > neccessary build tools captured in a chroot waiting to build kernel > modules. Please no dependecies on having the kernel installed and even Why is it bad to BuildRequires: kernel-suchandsuch ? You don't unpack some glibc sources into a chroot waiting to build userspace programs, do you? No, you install glibc-devel... So I don't see the problem with installing the kernel you are going to build against. > running. These requirements are far too strict, and unneccessary as > past and current practice demonstrates. They may be adequate for > someone building for his own few kernels, but not for producing > several kernel module rpms in a row. Can you not install several kernels in the chroot at once?
