-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Jim Perrin Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 4:30 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Building a new 2.6 kernel
[buildcentos@quark SPECS]$ rpmbuild -bp kernel-2.6.spec error: Architecture is not included: i386
Woops, my fault. That should be rpmbuild -bp --target=i686 (or x86_64 depending on what you're using) kernel-2.6.spec
No problem, at least I'm not going crazy. I kept thinking, "what am I doing wrong" and "do I really want to post again, there going to think I stupid":)
I'm now doing the build but I'm seeing many errors and warnings may I assume that these are normal?
You also said something about keeping my own release numbers. I think the line is:
%define release 34.0.2.EL
So I should change it to something like:
%define release 34.0.2.EL.PRX.01
I'll rebuild it again and make that change before I make it the default boot kernel.
Cascading problem set. Redo everything again (sorry) with that command instead, and it should work. You'll also have to pass in the --target=i686 when you do the final rpmbuild --rebuild buildroot/SRPMS/kernel-foo.src.rpm also.
Speaking of making it the new boot kernel just how do I move the kernel so I can select it during boot and still be able to return to the "standard" kernel incase of problems? I think grub?
I'm writing all of this up so I can post it back over on the hylafax.org site in their wiki. Should help the next person that has to do this. Sure wish that the standard hylafax release would contain about 40 tty ports. They can't take up much space and it would solve this problem.
Better yet this should be a configurable parameter without having to rebuild the kernel. Hey kernel developers, how about that?
This is fun, but it sure can drive one crazy until you get the hang of it.
Thanks again for all the help.
John
PS: Build just finished and got these errors. I was in the following directory when I started the build.
/home/buildcentos/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-2.6.9/linux-2.6.9
And used the command:
rpmbuild --rebuild --target=i686 /home/buildcentos/rpmbuild/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.9-34.0.2.EL.src.rpm
The errors I got.
shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory Finding Provides: /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/find-kmod-provides.sh Requires(rpmlib): rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1 rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1 Checking for unpackaged file(s): /usr/lib/rpm/check-files /var/tmp/kernel-2.6.9-34.0.2.EL-root shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory Wrote: /home/buildcentos/rpmbuild/RPMS/i686/kernel-2.6.9-34.0.2.EL.i686.rpm Wrote: /home/buildcentos/rpmbuild/RPMS/i686/kernel-devel-2.6.9-34.0.2.EL.i686.rpm Wrote: /home/buildcentos/rpmbuild/RPMS/i686/kernel-smp-2.6.9-34.0.2.EL.i686.rpm Wrote: /home/buildcentos/rpmbuild/RPMS/i686/kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-34.0.2.EL.i686.rpm Wrote: /home/buildcentos/rpmbuild/RPMS/i686/kernel-hugemem-2.6.9-34.0.2.EL.i686.rpm Wrote: /home/buildcentos/rpmbuild/RPMS/i686/kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-34.0.2.EL.i686 .rpm Wrote: /home/buildcentos/rpmbuild/RPMS/i686/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.9-34.0.2.EL.i686.rpm Executing(%clean): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.23183 shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory + umask 022 + cd /home/buildcentos/rpmbuild/BUILD chdir: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory + cd kernel-2.6.9 + rm -rf /var/tmp/kernel-2.6.9-34.0.2.EL-root + exit 0 Executing(--clean): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.42450 shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory + umask 022 + cd /home/buildcentos/rpmbuild/BUILD chdir: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory + rm -rf kernel-2.6.9 + exit 0
Are these normal or do I still have something wrong?
It also looks like all of the files and directories are deleted during the build. That included the kernel.2.6.spec file. Not a problem but it just caught me off guard when they disapeared. It looks like a new copy of the sources with the changes I made was created in the SRPMS directory. Is that correct? If so I guess I just install it and rebuild. Nice touch if that's correct.