On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Juan Pablo Claude wrote: > Yes, the tape drive modules are disabled in the default config. And the > problem is that the source tree from the current SRPM is not compiling clean > for me. All ftape rpm's and source code are dated and will not compile for > Fedora Core. Ok - Most of this info in in the URL's I've pointed to earler. And some in the FC3 release notes (give them a read) 1. Build a non-root rpm build enviornment (from http://www.fedoranews.org/tchung/rpmbuild) $ cd ~ cp -a /usr/src/redhat/ rpmbuild echo '%_topdir %(echo $HOME)/rpmbuild' >> .rpmmacros 2. Now obtain the kerne.src.rpm (perhaps using wget or something) <digression> 2.1 If you were to just recompile the kernel you would do the following. rpmbuild --rebuild --target=i686 kernel.src.rpm the built kernel would be in ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/i686 <end digression> 3. unpack the .src.rpm (caution: this is done as 'user' - not 'root') rpm -ivh kernel...src.rpm Now you will find the following: - The spec file is in ~/rpmbuild/SPECS - the sources & patches are in ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES 4. Now to get the patched-source tree - you do the following: <from FC3 release notes> rpmbuild -bp --target=i686 ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/kernel-2.6.spec Now the patched source tree is in ~/rpmbuild/BUILD 5. Now go to this location and modify the .config file - and build your modified kernel. I guess there are a bunch of ways to do this. - make modification - & compile - as you woud have done with the old kernel-source.rpm package - or modify the .config file as necessary - and replace the original with the modified one. i.e: cd ~/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-2.6.9/linux-2.6.9 make menuconfig <make necessary changes - save & quit> diff .config ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/kernel-2.6.9-i686.config cp .config ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/kernel-2.6.9-i686.config And now rebuild the kernel rpmbuild -ba --target=i686 ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/kernel-2.6.spec Satish ---- Notes: Ideally you'll have patches for ALL changes - and apply these patches from the spec file - this way its easy to do it again with a kernel upgrade. Also disable the build of the smp kernel - in the .spec file i.e chnage: %define buildsmp 1 to %define buildsmp 0
