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Hello,

I need to create a binary package for a kernel using "make rpm".
I cannot use "rpmbuild -bb" because I need to patch the kernel sources to
  support some WiFi device.

Here is briefly what I did:
  rpm -ivh kernel-xxxxxxxxxxx_FC3.src.rpm
  edit "/usr/src/redhat/SPECS/kernel-2.6.spec" to change rhbsys, disable smp
  rpmbuild -v -bp --target=i686 /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/kernel-2.6.spec
  patch the kernel
  adapt .config file
  modify Makefile to set UTS_MACHINE to i686 (else, only .i386.rpm is created)
    and modify EXTRAVERSION if not OK
  make rpm
  as soon as mkspec has been run, stop it
  and modify kernel.spec to add post install commands
    (mainly /sbin/new-kernel-pkg)
  rerun "make rpm"

A binary package .i686.rpm is created

Here are my questions:

  . the binary package is about 100 MB, compared to the 16 MB of the
    binary package from Fedora.
    Each .ko is around 4 times bigger than the one from Fedora.
    Why ?
    Are there compile options to set ?????

  . /lib/modules/xxxxx/build is not included in the package
    is there something to do to have a /lib/modules/xxxx/build included,
    with a link to /lib/modules/xxxx/sources ????

Thanks for your help.

I find this binary package generation very painful.....