Personally, I download the latest vanilla source from www.kernel.org and
do a make binrpn-pkg. Read up on mkinitrd.
Mark Bidewell
Robby Tanner wrote:
Where can I read up on the release process? For example, I have a bunch
of patches (2.6.x etc) and a couple of files called "final" and one with
a bk2 in it. There was mention of an rpmbuild command. In what order
and how do I apply the patches and/or tarballs?
Where are the patches available to update me to the new kernel?
Rob
-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alexander Dalloz
Sent: Monday, July 04, 2005 10:00 AM
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: Kernel Compiling
What are bk2 files for? Presumably that's in the release
notes as well?
No, the release notes do not explain that. That is something
which belongs to the process how changes, fixes etc. to the
official kernel sources are named. It think "bk" stands for
BitKeeper (formerly used tool use by Linus to handle the
sources), while other suffixes note patch sets by kernel
hackers (like -ac<number> for Alan Cox).
Rob
Alexander
