Re: Building a kernel-source RPM (not a kernel RPM)?

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Sep 12 2007 20:23, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
>On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 20:16 +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>>> 
>>> But we are talking[0] about a kernel-source-$VERSION.$ARCH.rpm's 
>>> which contain the kernel sources (read: lots of .c and .h files, 
>>> etc.) - including a matching .config and after `make oldconfig` - so 
>>> that one can build out-of-tree modules after installing it with 
>>> "KSRC=" (or whatever the Makefile parameter is usually called).
>>
>> You need certain things of the kernel built before you can build 
>> external modules (if they use a sane build approach). Just including 
>> the .config with the kernel source is far from enough.
>
>ACK. That all must be done/prepared correctly for the 
>kernel-source-*.rpm. And nobody said it is trivial or easy.

Trivial as far as SUSE goes. Install the binary package and you get all 
the symvers, modvers, and everything of the O= part that is needed. That 
is because symvers are per-binary image and not per-source.

Remain the Makefiles, which are in (the big) kernel-source rpm :-/



	Jan
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