On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 15:56 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote: > Not an "official" comment, but the method described at: > http://crab-lab.zool.ohiou.edu/kevin/kernel-compilation-tutorial-en/steps.html > uses "make menuconfig" (or your favourite GUI version) and does not > require the creation of a kernel-source package, nor hand-editing of the > config files. This does appear to be the "official" way of building > kernels, and results in an RPM too, which is good, isn't it? > That works BUT is far more time consuming and lacks the portability of creating kernel-source.rpm. I don't really care about the kernel rpm; I require the source tree in /usr/src for some options anyway - eg TARPIT. -- Total Quality Management - A Commitment to Excellence Fight Spam: http://www.tqmcube.com/rbldnsd.htm Daily Updates: rsync -t \ tqmcube.com::spamlists/[README.htm][clients][dynamic][relays][asiaspam] http://www.tqmcube.com/spam_trap.htm
