On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 03:12:49PM -0700, John Warren enlightened us: > 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 > You can do that, yes. I think by default, it also appends some information like the user building the RPM to the name. You can check out the spec file for that. > 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 the first thing that the RPM does is remove that directory to start from scratch :-) > And used the command: > > rpmbuild --rebuild --target=i686 > /home/buildcentos/rpmbuild/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.9-34.0.2.EL.src.rpm > If you're making changes to the spec file, you probably want rpmbuild -ba --target=i686 kernel.spec instead. > The errors I got. > > 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 Errors are due to where you started. It did successfully create the RPMs, though. > 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. > Ahh, I bet your changes didn't make it in if you just make them in the BUILD/kernel... directory. The first thing rebuilding the src rpm does is wipe that directory out and unpack a fresh copy. You're best off making changes to the files in the SOURCES directory, and rebuilding from the .spec file. I think there's also a way to skip parts of the build process, so you could -bp to prep, make changes in BUILD, then skip the prep part of the build process so that it doesn't overwrite your changes. man rpmbuild for that. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263