Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:46:16 +0200 | From | Thorsten Leemhuis <> | Subject | Re: Building a kernel-source RPM (not a kernel RPM)? |
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On 12.09.2007 20:03, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: > On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 10:31 -0700, Dan Stromberg wrote: >> On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:09:26 +0200, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: > [...] >>> Fedora BTW abandoned kernel-source* and they have now a website with a >>> description >>> how to produce a configured kernel source tree (e.g. for out-of-tree >>> modules).
That explanation is IMHO a bit misleading. Fedora ships kernel-devel packages for all their kernels. Those contain everything from the source-tree that's needed to build out-of-tree modules -- Makefiles for example, but no real sources.
Well, to be more precise: that is enought for out-of-tree modules that get shipped with proper Makefiles/Layout, which is the case for nearly every external module these days. The "website with a description how to produce a configured kernel source tree" exists as well, for people that want to build kernels the way the Fedora builds them, but want to apply additional patches/other sources.
>> So this is as smooth as producing kernel-source RPM's gets? > I had no problems with the kernel-source.*.rpm approach.
I think the Fedora approach has many benefits -- I always wondered why it never went upstream like a "make install_develstuff" that install all the needed bits to /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build/
CU knurd
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