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SubjectRe: Building a kernel-source RPM (not a kernel RPM)?
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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.

Bernd
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