linux-kernel - Re: Building a kernel-source RPM (not a kernel RPM)?

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Date:	Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:23:04 +0200
From:	Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@...mix.at>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Cc:	Dan Stromberg <dstromberglists@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Building a kernel-source RPM (not a kernel RPM)?

On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 20:16 +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > 
> > But we are talking[0] about a kernel-source-$VERSION.$ARCH.rpm's which
> > contain
> > the kernel sources (read: lots of .c and .h files, etc.) - including a
> > matching
> > .config and after `make oldconfig` - so that one can build out-of-tree
> > modules
> > after installing it with "KSRC=" (or whatever the Makefile parameter is
> > usually called).
> You need certain things of the kernel built before you can build
> external modules (if they use a sane build approach).
> Just including the .config with the kernel source is far from enough.

ACK.
That all must be done/prepared correctly for the kernel-source-*.rpm.
And nobody said it is trivial or easy.

	Bernd
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