On 5/24/07, dcw <dwoody1 at charter.net> wrote: > > > > (1) prepare .spec by removing lines from %prep > > (2) rpmbuild -bp kernel-2.6.spec > > (3) go to BUILD (where .config is) > > (4) make xconfig > > (5) add # i386 to .config as the first line > > (6) copy this .config back to SOURCES (using the original name xxx.config) > > (7) rpmbuild -ba kernel-2.6.spec > > > > Or, instead of steps (5) to (7), just run: > I did 5 and 6 anyway, assuming that in the worst case they were not needed and > would do no harm. I then did 'rpmbuild -bc ...' as below. > > It was working until gpg had a segfault. From some of the emails I have been > reading this is a known problem that has not been fixed yet. > > Other emails I have read indicated that signmodule should be set to 0. > What is the down side risk of doing this? All I can tell you is that 'signmodules' is set to 0 in my spec file. I did not change it, so that must have been CentOS's default (?). By the way, Johnny Hughes has kindly checked the above procedure and said, "that's what I do." This is a big assurance. I agree that your goal is almost there. Isn't Linux fantastic? Imagine trying this in Windows... Akemi