On 18/07/2008, <b class="gmail_sendername">Filipe Brandenburger</b> <<a href="mailto:filbranden@gmail.com">filbranden@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:44, Alan Bartlett <<a href="mailto:ajb.stxsl@googlemail.com">ajb.stxsl@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:<br> > Have you fully researched what currently is present in the WIki?<br> > <a href="http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/YumAndRPM#head-d2b0e7b7f3943ba0f8d08f9cfa46e821ba74aff4">http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/YumAndRPM#head-d2b0e7b7f3943ba0f8d08f9cfa46e821ba74aff4</a><br>
<br>Yes, but this is just a small introduction about how to do it, and in<br> a way which is not consistent (the commands are not exactly the same)<br> as:<br> <br><a href="http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/I_need_the_Kernel_Source#head-a8dae925eec15786df9f6f8c918eff16bf67be0d">http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/I_need_the_Kernel_Source#head-a8dae925eec15786df9f6f8c918eff16bf67be0d</a><br>
<br>Note that none of these articles are about building RPMs anyway, one<br> is a kind of FAQ on Yum and RPM and the second one is on building your<br> own kernel.</blockquote><div><br>The second reference you have quoted actually details how to obtain the Kernel Sources and set up the build tree in a consistent fashion for subsequent usage (covered in two other articles).<br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> > Have you replied to Russ Herrold's comment? Perhaps I missed it.<br> <br>
No, but others did and I agree with their comments.</blockquote><div><br>I think it would have been polite of you to have responded to Russ' comments. (Speaking as an Englishman.)<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Basically I think that pointers to the outside are not that good<br> because they not necessarily contain CentOS specific information.</blockquote><div><br>The main link that Akemi and I currently have in Kernel Sources and Custom Kernel is to the (maintained) CentOS specific Owl River page (<a href="http://www.owlriver.com/tips/non-root/">http://www.owlriver.com/tips/non-root/</a>). The other link, in the Custom Kernel article, (<a href="http://howtoforge.com/kernel_compilation_centos/">http://howtoforge.com/kernel_compilation_centos/</a>) is mentioned to strongly dissuade its use.<br>
<br></div><snip><br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Anyway, building RPMs is something I learned the hard way because<br>
there is no one-stop easily-understandable comprehensive but<br> howto-like document, and that is what I was trying to address. But<br> it's your decision as to if the idea of creating this on CentOS wiki<br> has merits or not.</blockquote>
<div><br>Perhaps you would care to draft out what you have in mind.<br><br>I hope you will not take offence at this (for none is intended) but in view of your use of the English language - taking the two above sentences as an example - (baring in mind that English is the main language of the CentOS Wiki), what you write may well need to be re-edited by a native English speaker. I would be willing to assist you with that.<br>
<br>Russ, Ralph and Akemi - do you have any comments, please?<br><br>Alan.</div></div><br>