Dan Stromberg wrote: > On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 23:34:14 -0400, Radhesh Muralidhar wrote: <snip> >> 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. > > In most situations, I'd say yes, but in this case the product has very > specific needs of our kernels, and we do indeed require a specific Linus > kernel for this. I am unaware of any capability within the vanilla kernel to build an RPM for you. I would say that you would still be ahead of the game by taking the suse source rpm and starting with that. This is in fact what I have done for our needs. For your needs, you could take one of the platform specific spec files and modify that to do what you want without too much trouble. -- kr -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
