Re: Building a kernel-source RPM (not a kernel RPM)?

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On 9/11/07, Dan Stromberg <dstromberglists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I'm on a SuSE system.
>
> I'm working on automating the install of said system, but it needs a Linus
> kernel - 2.6.21.7 specifically, and it needs kernel source too so that we
> can build modules in the field as needed.

Wouldn't you be better off using suse source rpms? I don't know
specifically about suse,but on fedora i work with the rpmbuild tools
and the fedora source rpm. man rpmbuild should help you if you want to
try it out.

Here is a wiki entry I refer to often:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/CustomKernel

Radhesh


>
> I see you can make an rpm of a bootable kernel with "make rpm".
>
> Is there a streamlined way of building a corresponding kernel-source RPM?
>  Or do people pretty much all just dump the source in /usr/src, and
> manually update symlinks as needed?  If the latter, what symlinks need to
> be updated?
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