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Re: Building 2.4.20-19 for RH 7.3

To: Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Building 2.4.20-19 for RH 7.3
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 09:12:21 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: Linux xfs mailing list <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0309040749080.21283-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Start with the rh9 SRPM, and edit the spec file like this, to change
the version # and to turn off the nptl patches:

--- kernel-2.4.spec     2003-08-26 16:06:16.000000000 -0500
+++ kernel-2.4.spec.7   2003-09-04 09:11:17.000000000 -0500
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 # that the kernel isn't the stock RHL kernel, for example by
 # adding some text to the end of the version number.
 #
-%define release 19.9.XFS
+%define release 19.7.XFS
 %define sublevel 20
 %define kversion 2.4.%{sublevel}
 # /usr/src/%{kslnk} -> /usr/src/linux-%{KVERREL}
@@ -31,8 +31,8 @@
 %define all_x86 i386 i686 i586 athlon
 #define all_x86 i686 i386 i586 athlon

-%define nptlarchs %{all_x86}
-#define nptlarchs noarch
+#%define nptlarchs %{all_x86}
+define nptlarchs noarch

 # disable build root strip policy
 %define __spec_install_post /usr/lib/rpm/brp-compress || :


On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:

> How does one go about building the RH based XFS 1.3 release kernel for RH 
> 7.3?  I'm assuming that just a 'rpm --rebuild' of the RH 9 SRPM on a 7.3 
> system won't work.  Well, it does work in that it creates RPMs that 
> install and *seem* (in limited testing)  to run without a problem.  But 
> I'd like to know the official way to do this before I put this server into 
> production.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -- 
> Joshua Baker-LePain
> Department of Biomedical Engineering
> Duke University
> 
> 


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