Re: how to 'rip apart' a rpm.

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> > Yes, but Fedora no longer ships mkinitrd and if we
> need it, we need to
> > download it.  Is there any new documentation(not
> the rpm one that exists )
> > on how to build a kernel on Fedora with the dracut in
> place of mkinitrd? 
> > How to enable KMS, and how to install the nouveau
> driver?  copying Fedora
> > kernel's config does not build a kernel that can have
> X working great and
> > using noueaux.  This needs to be changed and
> documented so that users can
> > make/roll their own kernels and use the nouveau driver
> too!, otherwise
> > "evil driver" will do work and give X, but not a "true
> Fedora solution
> > right"?
> 
> to build the initrd replace mkinitrd with dracut on the
> command line.   you 
> could always checkout the fedora kernel from fedoras cvs
> and apply whatever 
> patches you need on top.  or you need to pull the
> patches fedora has for 
> nouveau and apply to whatever kernel you build
> 
> 
> Dennis
> 
> -----

Yes Dennis, the answer looks fine, but how does it incorporate here:

cp config-`uname -r` .config
make mrproper
make all
make modules
make modules_install (as root)  
make install (as root)  

make install  here, this command expects mkintrd and Fedora does not have it, and it needs dracut now?  How do we tell make install that we need dracut to this automagically?  Can we script it?  I am sure that many users just # yum install mkintrd -y
and move on, but if we want to use Fedora's way(not rpm build but regular mortal way) we are at a loss :(, also there is not good enough documentation on the nouveau issues(if there is no one is sharing it :(    )

I can apply patches easily
patch -p1 < ????, 
but dracut in place of mkinitrd, in make install is not that easy :(

If there's a way to do it, I am sure more than one person would be happy to know :)  

Regards,

Antonio 


      
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