On Monday, January 09, 2006 7:00 PM -0500 Robert L Cochran
<cochranb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have this kernel file downloaded to ~
[rlc@bobcp4 ~]$ ls -al kernel*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 rlc rlc 40523094 Jan 9 18:53
kernel-2.6.14-1.1656_FC4.src.rpm
Which I want to install in the rpm build root in my home directory (so it
is not in /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES):
drwxrwxr-x 7 rlc rlc 4096 Jan 5 00:36 rpmbuild
-rw-rw-r-- 1 rlc rlc 135 Jan 5 00:36 .rpmmacros
For a kernel build, does doing this make sense? Or should I be installing
to /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES and /usr/src/redhat/SPECS?
It depends. ;) Why are you installing the kernel source RPM?
For a single-user box, you can just chown /usr/src/redhat to your packaging
identity and do all packaging under the system default packaging tree. If
you have multiple packagers sharing a host, give each his own packaging
tree in his home directory.
"Installing" a source RPM is conceptually the same as unpacking a source
tarball, in the sense that it's unpacking an archive that must then be
passed through translators to convert it into a binary object suitable for
installation. There's nothing special about the kernel source RPM that
justifies giving it special treatment.
