Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Sep 1998 22:50:27 -0700 (PDT) | From | Joel Jaeggli <> | Subject | Re: Kernel Upgrades - Redhat - spec files - rpm .. and stuff |
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Actually If you just go ahead and put the kernel where you normaly would and add an additional lilo entry for the new kernel located in / before you do make zlilo or make bzlilo (redhat's is in /boot) you won't even touch the contents of your redhat install...
joelja
On Fri, 4 Sep 1998, Charlie Ross wrote:
> > Are there any existing rpm spec files for the newer 2.1.xxx kernels? > or srpms? > > I recently gave up on my slowly dying way-old slackware distribution.. I > was just getting too slow and hard to maintain.... So I installed redhat > 5.1.. I am very impressed with the rpm capability.. But I would like to be > using a 2.1.xxx kernel... > > I suppose I could just install the kernel the standard way I did w/ > slackware, but now that I am all rpm-ey I am affraid of mangling any > existing rpm installs, and I really like the idea of being able to > uninstall/reinstall varying kernels.. > > I was about to make a spec file to build rpms.. with "make menuconfig" part > of the %prep.. But first I wanted to check if anything already exists > first.. Plus I havent been able to find out how to make dependancies in rms > yet... this sounds to me like a good way to implement all the minimium > requirements in Doc/Changes and it is partially why I am working on this. > > It seems to me that this might be a usefull thing to distribute with the > kernels... ( a spec file ) So that people would be able to make their own > rpms from the source and install/uninstall kernels w/ different > options easily after they have been made. > > For all I know, this has been done already, and is sitting on some FTP site > somwhere, and all of you are already using it. :) > > Comments? Criticisms? Flames? > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/faq.html >
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