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Re: Question about kernel update

To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Question about kernel update
From: Simon Matter <simon.matter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 12:39:13 +0100
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Organization: Sauter AG, Basel
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Eric Sandeen schrieb:
> 
> It's pretty straightforward, just get the kernel-foo.src.rpm, and then
> as root* do:
> 
> rpmbuild --ba --target i686 kernel-foo.src.rpm
> 
> and a few hours later, you should have shiny new RPMs in
> /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i686

I whish it was like that :)
Unfortunately the i386 and i586 kernel build fine but the i686 one
doesn't build. Does one of the gurus know the fix?

Simon

> 
> -Eric
> 
> *you don't have to build RPMs as root but doing otherwise requires a
> longer explanation.  :)
> 
> On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 16:00, Joe St.Clair wrote:
> > This would not be a big problem but I have never done this on a RedHat
> > system.  What I am looking for is some information on how to do this.
> >
> > Juri Haberland wrote:
> 
> > >Well, it depends. Unfortunately the new SGI RPMs are all build for RedHat
> > >8.0! Seems that all users with RedHat 7.1 - 7.3 have to rebuild from the
> > >SRPMs :(
> 
> --
> Eric Sandeen      XFS for Linux     http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs
> sandeen@xxxxxxx   SGI, Inc.         651-683-3102


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