On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 07:29 +1000, Benham Family wrote: > On Tuesday 19 July 2005 01:07, James Kosin wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Benham Family wrote: > > | Apparently it expects kernel sources in > > | /usr/src/kernels/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4-i686, but the FC4 install didn't > > | put them there. Checking the README file on the first install disk > > | I discovered that unlike my previous installation, kernel sources > > | were no longer included. I needed to download > > | kernel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.src.rpm. Looking at the man page for rpm I > > | guessed I needed to --install it, but that didn't seem to do > > | anything exciting. After some searching I discovered it had put a > > | large number of files into /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES. My joy was > > | short-lived when I found that this was not the desired kernel > > | source code, but the source code for a different kernel and a large > > | number of .patch files. > > | > > | How do I get to my desired kernel source from where I am? do I have > > | to extract the bzip2'd tarball and apply the patches one by one? in > > | some particular order? > > | > > | cheers, Tim > > > > Tim, > > > > 'rpmbuild -bp SPECS/kernel-2.6.spec' from the /usr/src/redhat > > directory should do the trick. > > Thanks James, but that gives me > > error: Architecture is not included: i386 This would probably work (from the /usr/src/redhat directory): # rpmbuild -bp --target=i686 SPECS/kernel-2.6.spec But as others have pointed out, the full kernel source shouldn't be necessary and installing the kernel-devel package should suffice. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
