At 11:20 PM 9/20/00 -0600, you wrote:
>Jeff Groves wrote:
> >
> > At 04:22 PM 9/20/00 -0600, you wrote:
> > >I don't mean to avoid answering the question (I don't have the answer to
> > >the question of why you can't build your RPM from your SRPM) but I'm
> > >hard-pressed to understand why someone would want to build a
> > >kernel-binary *or* kernel-source RPM from an SRPM unless that person
> > >were planning a customized, large scale deployment.
> >
> > That's exactly what I'm trying to do.  I need to add some special features
> > that aren't in the standard build.
>
>Okay, but you don't need to build an RPM to do that -- just take a
>standard kernel source RPM or a kernel tarball and build a custom kernel
>from that. What you are trying to do is a first step into rocket science
>-- not for the meek.
>
>As I said, if you have a large organization, and you need to do
>pre-configured kernel binary (or even source) updates on 15-500
>machines, then yeah, maybe you would build an RPM. 99% of people don't
>need to do this...

Unfortunately, I'm in the 1% category for this project.


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