Re: Automatic download of kernel rpms

["linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)" <linux-os@analogic.com>]

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.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.6.13.4 on an i686 machine (5589.55 BogoMips).
Warning : 98.36% of all statistics are fiction.
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