On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 09:31:46PM +0000, Nick Smith wrote:
> I'm trying to build a kernel SRPM from the current CVS tree. Having read
> the docs and checked out the sources, I get as far as (from kernel/devel)
>
> [root@localhost devel]# make
> % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time
> Current
> Dload Upload Total Spent Left
> Speed
> 100 35.3M 100 35.3M 0 0 195k 0 0:03:05 0:03:05 --:--:--
> 236k
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 37075679 Mar 6 22:22 linux-2.6.11.tar.bz2
> % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time
> Current
> Dload Upload Total Spent Left
> Speed
> 100 3323k 100 3323k 0 0 193k 0 0:00:17 0:00:17 --:--:--
> 236k
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3403237 Apr 6 22:24 patch-2.6.12-rc2.bz2
> make: *** No rule to make target `configs/config-i686', needed by
> `kernel-2.6.11-i686.config'. Stop.
>
> The source trees I checked out ("cvs co kernel" with
> CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/cvs/dist) do not seem to
> contain any configs
>
> Perhaps somebody would be kind enough to point out where I am going wrong
As far as I can tell, this is a flaw of the current internal CVS -> external
CVS mirroring. It doesn't seem to handle subdirectories.
In the meantime until it gets fixed, I've placed the current configs/
dir for rawhide at http://people.redhat.com/davej/configs/
Dave
