Hi, I am used to configuring my own kernels, because I drop a lot of stuff I don't really use. Lately, kernel-source RPMs have been deprecated in favor of SRPMs. I do can build new versions from them, but there are a couple of issues: 1. I generate kernel sources with rpmbuild --target i686 -bp kernel-2.6.spec and then I move the resulting .../redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.9/linux-2.6.9 to /usr/src/linux , and then do 'make bzImage modules modules_install install' (usually after a 'make oldconfig' using my own .config file). Previous kernel sources appended version numbers (eg. -1.667) to kernel "signature" (uname -r); current sources simply append "-prep" (this happened both with 681 and 724 versions). IMHO this is bad because it simply overrides any existing -prep version with the new one, demanding some manual work to ensure a previous, bootable kernel still exists. 2. there's no support for 'athlon' architecture I have an athlon-XP CPU, and if I plainly run 'rpmbuild -bp kernel-2.6.spec' it barfs that athlon is not supported and bails out. Browsing through spec file I couldn't indeed find specific support for it. Any special reason for that? I know I might be doing something wrong for not using rpm the whole way trhough, but shouldn't the above procedure work? (I'd be more than glad to do it provided I could use my own tweaked configure file) Any relevant points I am missing? TIA, and happy new year to everybody, Andre -- Andre Oliveira da Costa
