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

[linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)]

On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote:

>
> 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

If his base package was RedHat, he can just download the sources
he wants, from ftp.kernel.org, un-tar the *.gz file into /usr/src,
then copy the .config used to build the existing kernel from /boot.
It is called /boot/config-`uname -r`. Copy that to the new
kernel tree as ".config" then chdir to that tree and execute
`make oldconfig`. Some questions will have to be answered because
the newer kernel will have additional drivers.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.6.22.1 on an i686 machine (5588.30 BogoMips).
My book : http://www.AbominableFirebug.com/
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