Kenneth Porter wrote:
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.
I'm installing kernel source because I want to fool with the stacks
option needed by the ndiswrapper driver, which in turn may help
ndiswrapper to work correctly with the Buffalo AirStation WLI-CB-G54A
wireless network PC card I want to pop into my laptop. I also want to
fool with kernel builds for the heck of it. And finally, because these
will let me get a good measure of how fast my Athlon X2 dual core
processor is. And although I just have a single user system it seems
safer to do the build in my home directory. As I haven't done a kernel
build in at least a couple of years, I am sure I can be entirely wrong.
Bob
