On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 01:08:46PM -0200, Andre Costa wrote: > 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. Somethings not going right. It does that early in the built process, but later on, it shuold change it to be -%{release}[smp]. > 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? As I understand it, there's no advantage to picking the athlon architecture specifically with the 2.6 kernel; it tunes itself as necessary at runtime. > 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? Ahhhh, sorry, I missed that part. That explains your first problem. Go all the way, and it should work fine. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>