> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org > [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Matt Hyclak > Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 3:41 PM > To: 'CentOS mailing list' > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Building a new 2.6 kernel > > > 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. There were several other steps before that which I did not list. It goes something like this: rpm -i kernel-2.6.9-34.0.2.EL.src.rpm Edit the kernel-2.6.spec file cp SOURCES/kernel-2.6.9-i686-smp.config BUILD/kernel-2.6.9/linux-2.6.9/.config Edit as required using menuconfig cp .config /home/buildcentos/rpmbuild/SOURCES/kernel-2.6.9-i686-smp.config rpmbuild --target=i686 -bs /home/buildcentos/rpmbuild/SPECS/kernel-2.6.spec rpmbuild --rebuild --target=i686 /home/buildcentos/rpmbuild/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.9-34.0.2.EL.PRX.01.src.rpm > > > 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.E > L.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.. Ahh I see, so which directory is the best place to be when you start the build? > > > > 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. I think they did, see above. I'm still not sure just how to ket the kernel loaded. Adjusting the grub.conf I understand. I found this but I'm not sure if it's the right way to do it. rpm -ivh --force kernel-smp-2.6.9-34.0.2.EL.PRX.01.i686.rpm Thanks Matt > > Matt > > -- > Matt Hyclak > Department of Mathematics > Department of Social Work > Ohio University > (740) 593-1263 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >