On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > But it would be really handy if, somewhere on the install disks, there > were tools and instructions and configs to rebuild the distributed > kernels, exactly like the binaries and libraries on the FC3 distro, > so the great unwashed masses can check to see that the binaries as > distributed are clean and uncorrupted. > > A person would have to be insane to run a kernel that they couldn't > verify corresponded exactly to clean sources. Such insane people are > called "Windows users", and we are here because we are NOT Windows users. > > Recompiling a kernel, even with a stock config file, is like getting > your own apartment rather than living in your parent's basement. > Not everyone needs to do it, but it is not that hard, and it is > an important step in the growth of an open source software user. > It is empowering, and it should be made easy. > > So leave the kernel sources on the source disks, or on a mirror, but > please provide a cookbook so that newbies can experience them. Why is this special with kernel? Its true for all packages. rpmbuild --rebuild package.src.rpm rpmbuild --rebuild --target=i686 kernel.src.rpm Satish
