Charlie Brady wrote: >> The kernel-sourcecode package has been changed by RH so as to be >> absolutely worthless :) >> >> rpmbuild -bp --target i686 kernel-2.6.spec >> >> (or i586, x86_64, etc.) > > > [Arch shouldn't matter for -bp, as %prep is architecture agnostic.] Have you actually tried this out before ? try this : ------------- rpmbuild -bp --target i686 kernel-2.6.spec mv ../BUILD/kernel-2.6.9 ../BUILD/kernel-2.6.9.i686 rpmbuild -bp --target x86_64 kernel-2.6.spec cd ../BUILD diff -uNr kernel-2.6.9.i686 kernel-2.6.9 | wc -l 15431 ------------- Can we, therefore, safely assume that source setup after a '-bp' is not that arch independent really? > Is the kernel-sourcecode RPM you built anywhere that I can get it? There is no kernel-sourcecode built by the CentOS buildsystem by default ( anymore ). If you really need it - go grab the .src.rpm and rebuild to suite your role / application requirement. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq