On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, David Cary Hart wrote:
> There is no way to customize the FC4 kernel without hacking the
> config files which is a VERY bad idea.
I've managed to build kernel.rpm [from .src.rpm] - with config
modifications primarily specified in .spec file - so no need for
kernel-source
To disable all the extra debugging in rawhide kernels - I have the
following mods in the kernel-2.6.spec file:
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BuildKernel() {
<snip>
make -s mrproper
cp configs/$Config .config
# personal modifications to disable a bunch of debug flags
perl -p -i -e "s/^CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB.*/CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB=n/" .config
perl -p -i -e "s/^CONFIG_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE.*/CONFIG_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE=n/" .config
perl -p -i -e "s/^CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.*/CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC=n/" .config
perl -p -i -e "s/^CONFIG_DEBUG_HIGHMEM.*/CONFIG_DEBUG_HIGHMEM=n/" .config
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And if you need to add patches - list them as any other patch
specified in the .spec file, and rebuild with:
rpmbuild -ba --target=i686 kernel-2.6.spec
Personally - I think this is much easier to maintain [when moving the
changes to an updated fedora kernel] than with kernel-source
Satish
