[Novalug] Kernel Compiles

[jecottrell3 at comcast.net]

What he means is they haven't released a Binary RPM of kernel source, which in the past might have been named

..../RPMS/kernel-src-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5.noarch.rpm

Binary RPMS install anywhere into the filesystem, while Source RPMS install into special directories under /usr/src/redhat,  altho that directory can be altered by various rpm macros.

JIM


----- Original Message -----
From: "John Holland" <jbholland at gmail.com>
To: "Bryan J. Smith" <b.j.smith at ieee.org>, novalug at calypso.tux.org
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 6:38:04 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [Novalug] Kernel Compiles

http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Server/en/os/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5.src.rpm



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On 04/12/2010 04:55 PM, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> Red Hat has not provided a kernel-source / kernel-src package for
> a long time.  One has to go back to Fedora Core 1 (2.4) and early
> Fedora Core 2 (2.6) releases to find such.
>
> I documented some of that here in this very legacy blog entry way back
> in 2005 (for the CentOS list no less), which includes a lot of history:
>    "Kernel 2.6 on Fedora-based Systems"
>    http://thebs413.blogspot.com/2005_10_01_archive.html
>
>
> And a quick entry more recently on just building/compiling/prepping
> the kernel:
> "A full Red Hat kernel source tree with makefiles, symbols, built objects, etc ..."
>    http://bjs-redhat.livejournal.com/1083.html
>
> I've been meaning to write a more in-depth entry on current releases,
> but the CentOS article isn't half-bad.
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Maxwell Spangler<maxlists at maxwellspangler.com>
>
> You are probably right.  It was this page that I used as my guide that
> suggests a fairly different approach than the long ago days of simpler
> compiles.
>
> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Custom_Kernel
>
> I completed my kernel rebuild the other night but I was surprised by:
>
> * Difficulty in finding kernel source; yum -y install kernel-source
> didn't work and I had to go looking for it.
>
> * Compiling as a normal user (not root) was something I'd never seen
> before
>
> * Editing spec files was never necessary in the past
>
> * Building an rpm as the output in order to rpm -ivh the new kernel was
> a new, but intelligent approach compared to building vmlinuz and simply
> copying the new vmlinuz into /boot
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