Am Montag, den 30.01.2006, 14:01 -0500 schrieb Kevin H. Hobbs:

On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 13:35 -0500, Stephane Gaucher wrote:

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Is it possible to re-compile the exact kernel from the kernel-xyz.src.rpm !?!

Yes, you could do it as root in /usr/src/redhat/ or as a regular user by putting the following in your ~/.rpmmacros.

# ~/.rpmmacros %packager %(echo "$USER") %_topdir %(echo "$HOME")/rpmbuild

Then create the directories that rpmbuild needs.

mkdir ~/rpmbuild mkdir ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES mkdir ~/rpmbuild/RPMS mkdir ~/rpmbuild/BUILD mkdir ~/rpmbuild/SRPMS

Or simply run as root:

# yum install fedora-rpmdevtools

And then as user:

$ fedora-buildrpmtree

(This actually creates a proper ~/.rpmmacros, the ~/rpmbuild directory and all the requires dirs below it from above description.)

And then:

Then rebuild the kernel.

rpmbuild --rebuild kernel-xyz.src.rpm

HTH

CU thl

On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 09:05:53PM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:

Am Montag, den 30.01.2006, 14:01 -0500 schrieb Kevin H. Hobbs:

And then:

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Then rebuild the kernel.

rpmbuild --rebuild kernel-xyz.src.rpm

HTH

Depending on what for you are building you may also need your target specified. If this is for the same target you are running at the moment then you can use

rpmbuild --rebuild --target=$(uname -m) kernel-xyz.src.rpm

or you may end up with i386 kernel when i686 was really desired.

The same should be taken into a consideration if you are building extra kernel modules.

Michal