Automatic download of kernel rpms

Automatic download of kernel rpms

[li nux]

Hi,

Is there any image server from where I can download
the latest kernel rpms as and when available.
Also, how can I achieve the automatic download.

-lnx


	
		
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Re: Automatic download of kernel rpms

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 08 November 2005 01:29, li nux wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Is there any image server from where I can download
>the latest kernel rpms as and when available.
>Also, how can I achieve the automatic download.

Generally, no.  The exact reason is that rpms are a vendor item, and no
fixed relation to the kernel.org tarballs.

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Re: Automatic download of kernel rpms

[linux-os (Dick Johnson)]

On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Alan Cox wrote:

> On Maw, 2005-11-08 at 08:33 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> Generally, no.  The exact reason is that rpms are a vendor item, and no
>> fixed relation to the kernel.org tarballs.
>
> "make rpm" should build an RPM package from them but you will still need
> to get the configuration correct before doing this.
>

Alan can verify that Red Hat Fedora puts the ".config" file in
/boot as /boot/config-`uname -r`. This can be copied to the
new kernel tree as ".config" and `make oldconfig` should get
you a kernel configured very close to the one provided with
the distribution.

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Dick Johnson
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Re: Automatic download of kernel rpms

[Alan Cox]

On Maw, 2005-11-08 at 08:33 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Generally, no.  The exact reason is that rpms are a vendor item, and no
> fixed relation to the kernel.org tarballs.

"make rpm" should build an RPM package from them but you will still need
to get the configuration correct before doing this.

Re: Automatic download of kernel rpms

[Ian Soboroff]

"linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)" <linux-os@analogic.com> writes:

> On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Alan Cox wrote:
>
>> On Maw, 2005-11-08 at 08:33 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>> Generally, no.  The exact reason is that rpms are a vendor item, and no
>>> fixed relation to the kernel.org tarballs.
>>
>> "make rpm" should build an RPM package from them but you will still need
>> to get the configuration correct before doing this.
>>
>
> Alan can verify that Red Hat Fedora puts the ".config" file in
> /boot as /boot/config-`uname -r`. This can be copied to the
> new kernel tree as ".config" and `make oldconfig` should get
> you a kernel configured very close to the one provided with
> the distribution.

Note that Fedora (and RHEL) kernels modularize nearly everything and
need an initrd to boot.  The kernel's "make rpm" does not make the
initrd for you (or fix up your grub.conf, IIRC).  So, the sequence is:

(unpack kernel)
cp /boot/config-`uname -r` .config
make oldconfig
(answer questions about new stuff)
make rpm
rpm -ivh <the-new-rpm>
mkinitrd /boot/initrd-<ver> <ver>
(edit grub.conf or what have you)

Ian