On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Christopher J. Bottaro wrote:
Hi, I'm using FC3 and I installed the kernel source using these steps:
rpm -Uvh ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/updates/3/SRPMS/kernel-`uname -r`.src.rpm cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS rpmbuild -bp --target=`uname -m` kernel-2.6.spec
I did all that with kernel-2.6.11-1.14_FC3 and it put the kernel source in /usr/src/redhat/build/kernel-2.6.11.
Now Red Hat released kernel-2.6.11-1.27_FC3 and I want to rebuild my kernel again, but I'm afraid its going to put the source in /usr/src/redhat/build/kernel-2.6.11 again, mixing with the old source I built.
How do I get rid of the old source or make the new source be put in a different place?
If I'm not mistaken, SRPMs unpack into /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/. But they don't make intries in the RPM database, so you just have to remove the directory before reinstalling.
rm -rf /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/kernel-2.6.11
Also, you are better off setting up RPM so that you do builds in your user account rather than as root. There are various places where you ana find out how to do this. See the JPackage Website (http://www.jpackage.org) or Michael Fratoni's rpm_enviroment scripts (http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/hack.html) for example.
Thanks for the help, -- C
-- Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
