On Wed, 4 Jul 2007, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Rohan Kulkarni wrote: > > > Then is YUM the best way to get the kernel updated? > > You said you wanted to "update" your kernel to 2.6.21.5 . > That is not a distribution kernel - it is a vanilla kernel, > as produced by Linus Torvalds and his team. > > You can only use yum to install a distribution kernel, > like 2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 (the latest Fedora kernel, I think). > > If you run "yum update" you will get the latest kernel, > and the latest versions of all other software too. > > Personally, I wouldn't try to make an rpm file of the kernel. > It's certainly possible - you would have to make a SPEC file, > and run rpmbuild - but I wouldn't have thought it would be > very useful to you. actually, the kernel source tree has package-building targets, like "make rpm-pkg" and "make binrpm-pkg" among others, but i'm guessing that's making things unnecessarily complicated. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ========================================================================
