On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Globe Trotter wrote:
Question: How does one patch to a kernel? I am under the impression
that i need
the src.rpm to do this, but is it at all otherwise possible? Also, if I want to
recompile after patching, how can I do so, given that my kernel is the latest
at this point?
- download the .src.rpm
- explode it with 'rpm -ivh kernel.src.rpm'
- add the patch to the rpmbuild/SOURCES location
- add the patch application to rpmbuild/SPECS/kernel-2.6.spec file
- now build the kernel with 'rpmbuild -ba --target=i686 kernel-2.6.spec
- Install the newly built kernel from rpmbuild/RPMS/i686
Satish