Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Building a kernel-source RPM (not a kernel RPM)? | From | Bernd Petrovitsch <> | Date | Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:09:26 +0200 |
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On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 09:13 -0700, Dan Stromberg wrote: > I sent this to kernel newbies first, and while I got one response there, > it answered a different question than the one I was asking...
Are you sure?
> I'm on a SuSE system. > > I'm working on automating the install of said system, but it needs a > Linus kernel - 2.6.21.7 specifically, and it needs kernel source too so > that we can build modules in the field as needed.
Find a kernel-source.*.src.rpm or kernel-*.src.rpm or whatever SuSE uses for nameing convention and reverse engineer the .spec file. Fedora BTW abandoned kernel-source* and they have now a website with a description how to produce a configured kernel source tree (e.g. for out-of-tree modules).
> I see you can make an rpm of a bootable kernel with "make rpm".
Well, then there must be a .spec file somewhere which just wants to be extended.
> Is there a streamlined way of building a corresponding kernel-source > RPM? Or do people pretty much all just dump the source in /usr/src, and
Yes, you put all the steps you do by hand into the .spec file. That's it.
> manually update symlinks as needed? If the latter, what symlinks need > to be updated?
Actually nowadays usually there no "sym-link updating" anymore necessary - just put the correct ones in /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/ and the full name in /boot/grub/menu.lst.
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