On Wednesday 19 November 2003 16:42, David C. Hart wrote: > Keith G. Robertson-Turner made this suggestion the other day - something > I was completely unaware of - and it's really a great idea. Thank you > very much. > > That having been said, I have a couple of questions. This is something > that is inconsistently documented. The more I Google - the more confused > I get. > > 1. The process seems to make both the source and installation RPMs. Is > there any way to make an installation version only? > It is possible with checkinstall or whatever the package name was, but I personaly think it's bad idea using it... I prefer downloading source rpm and then compile it - if something goes wrong I can always check how the package is compiled and what has changed. > 2. If I install the RPM it's not updating grub.conf like "make install." > How can I fix this so that the customized kernel rpm behaves like what > one gets from RH? Get the one from redhat (kernel-*.src.rpm), install it (rpm -ihv kern...src.rpm) and you will have all the sources/patches in /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES and the .spec file in /usr/src/redhat/SPECS. You might want to read 'Maximum RPM' for details how to build rpms. Building new kernel is not a trivial task at all, probably you should first try something easier first... (I managed to include mppe in RedHat 9's kernel this way) -- Regards, Doncho N. Gunchev
