2010/11/30 Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com>: > On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Pascal Robert <probert at macti.ca> wrote: > >>>> [root at hylafax SPECS]# rpmbuild -ba --target x86_64 kernel-2.6.spec > > You are building as root. This is a bad practice. When building a > CentOS custom kernel, please try following the instructions in: > > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Custom_Kernel I suggest to use mock for building CentOS/RHEL or fedora packages. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Projects/Mock For example: mock -r epel-5-x86_64 --rebuild kernel.src.rpm Best regards, Morten