On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 05:35 -0700, G Gambill wrote:
Where does Centos expect to find the source for a kernel rebuild???
TIA
George
For CentOS-3, you install the packages kernel-source and the source code is in /usr/src/linux-2.4 and also in linux-xxxxx.EL (where xxxxx is the version).
For CentOS-4, there is a kernel-sourcecode rpm ... but it doesn't work as expected and will probably be dropped in the future. (RHEL does not produce this file and it now builds only as a --target noarch ... so it doesn't get arch related patches). For compiling (most) drivers, you can just install the kernel-devel (or kernel-smp-devel, etc.) package. If you want to rebuild your kernel, you can get a arch specific tree like this:
download install the kernel src.rpm like this:
rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.9-11.EL.src.rpm
Then go to your SPECS directory for SRPMS ... the default is /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
There should be a kernel-2.6.spec file. You can get a good tree like this:
(from within the SPECS directory)
rpmbuild -bp --target i686 kernel-2.6.spec
then you would go to the ../BUILD/kernel-xxxx/linux-xxxx directory ... that is the main kernel directory. You can copy it to /usr/src/ and use it like you would the CentOS-3 one above.
once you have copied out the kernel source dir, you can remove the files and directories under BUILD, SPECS, SOURCES in /usr/src/redhat/