On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 04:15:45PM +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
Say you have neither a running nor an installed kernel, only the
neccessary build tools captured in a chroot waiting to build kernel
modules. Please no dependecies on having the kernel installed and even
Why is it bad to BuildRequires: kernel-suchandsuch ? You don't unpack
some glibc sources into a chroot waiting to build userspace programs,
do you? No, you install glibc-devel... So I don't see the problem
with installing the kernel you are going to build against.
running. These requirements are far too strict, and unneccessary as
past and current practice demonstrates. They may be adequate for
someone building for his own few kernels, but not for producing
several kernel module rpms in a row.
Can you not install several kernels in the chroot at once?