At 7:00 PM -0500 1/9/06, Robert L Cochran 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?
Since you have the rpmbuild stuff set up, something like:
$ rpmbuild --recompile -bp --target i6867 kernel-2.6.14-1.1656_FC4.src.rpm
will install the source. --rebuild or --recompile are needed in order to
work from a src.rpm rather than a specfile.
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