On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:09:26 +0200, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: > On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 09:13 -0700, Dan Stromberg wrote: >> I sent this to kernel newbies first, and while I got one response there, >> it answered a different question than the one I was asking... > > Are you sure?
Yes, I'm sure. The answer over there was "you don't want to do that. Do this instead. >> I'm on a SuSE system. >> >> I'm working on automating the install of said system, but it needs a >> Linus kernel - 2.6.21.7 specifically, and it needs kernel source too so >> that we can build modules in the field as needed. > > Find a kernel-source.*.src.rpm or kernel-*.src.rpm or whatever SuSE uses > for > nameing convention and reverse engineer the .spec file. > Fedora BTW abandoned kernel-source* and they have now a website with a > description > how to produce a configured kernel source tree (e.g. for out-of-tree > modules). So this is as smooth as producing kernel-source RPM's gets? I might be better off sticking with a .tar.bz2 and repointing symlinks. >> I see you can make an rpm of a bootable kernel with "make rpm". > > Well, then there must be a .spec file somewhere which just wants to be > extended. I'm not sure this is going to be any easier to automate, if that's what's required. >> Is there a streamlined way of building a corresponding kernel-source >> RPM? Or do people pretty much all just dump the source in /usr/src, and > > Yes, you put all the steps you do by hand into the .spec file. That's > it. I may just stick them in a bash script and forget about the RPM. Or are there other packages that are going to be cranky, dependencywise, if I ignore the RPM? >> manually update symlinks as needed? If the latter, what symlinks need >> to be updated? > > Actually nowadays usually there no "sym-link updating" anymore necessary On OpenSuSE 10.2, there appears to be: # find / /home -xdev -ls | egrep -- '-> /usr/src/linux' 215641 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Sep 11 17:50 /lib/modules/2.6.18.2-34-default/source -> /usr/src/linux-2.6.18.2-34 213786 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 45 Sep 11 17:50 /lib/modules/2.6.18.2-34-default/build -> /usr/src/linux-2.6.18.2-34-obj/x86_64/default > just put the correct ones in /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/ and the full name > in > /boot/grub/menu.lst. Which correct "ones"? Sometimes pronouns aren't shortcuts :) Thanks! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
