[PlanetCCRMA] kernel source confusion

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 15:28 +0100, Frode Petersen wrote:
> I'm trying to install the kernel source using the 
> 2.6.14-0.10.rrt.src.rpm file.
> 
> I use
> 	rpm -Uvh 2.6.14-0.10.rrt.src.rpm
> 
> to install the source.
> 
> Then, as instructed in the FC3 release notes (pasted at the bottom), I 
> run (from the /usr/src/redhat/SPECS):
> 
> 	rpmbuild -bp --target=i386 kernel.spec
> 
> which gave the following output:
> 
> Building target platforms: i386
> Building for target i386
> error: line 194: Dependency tokens must begin with alpha-numeric, '_' or 
> '/': Prereq: %{kernel_prereq}
> [root@x SPECS]#
> 
> I don't know whether it's helpful, but here are the lines in question:
> 
> 194: Prereq: %{kernel_prereq}
> 
> referring to:
> 
> 177: %{?fc4:%define kernel_prereq  fileutils, module-init-tools, 
> initscripts >= 5.83, mkinitrd >= 4.2.15-1}

Hmm, sorry, "fc4" is not defined by default - I use it for my build
system. Change "%{?fc4:xxxx}" to just "xxxx". 

-- Fernando

> I'm no expert in this area, but my logic tells me that this should 
> result in the following:
> 194: Prereq: fileutils, module-init-tools, initscripts >= 5.83, mkinitrd 
>  >= 4.2.15-1
> where the dependency token starts with an alpha-numeric character.
> 
> 
> I do not know how to proceed, or whether I did something wrong. Any help 
> would be most appreciated!
> 
> Frode Petersen
> 
> 
> ----------------------------
> Excerpt from the FC3 release notes
> 
> In order to eliminate the redundancy inherent in providing a separate 
> package for the kernel source code when that source code already exists 
> in the kernel's .src.rpm file, Fedora Core 3 no longer includes the 
> kernel-source package. Users that require access to the kernel sources 
> can find them in the kernel .src.rpm file. To create an exploded source 
> tree from this file, perform the following steps (note that <version> 
> refers to the version specification for your currently-running kernel):
> 
>     1.
> 
>        Obtain the kernel-<version>.src.rpm file from one of the 
> following sources:
>            *
> 
>              The SRPMS directory on the appropriate "SRPMS" CD iso image
>            *
> 
>              The FTP site where you got the kernel package
>            *
> 
>              By running the following command:
> 
>              up2date --get-source kernel
>     2.
> 
>        Install kernel-<version>.src.rpm (given the default RPM 
> configuration, the files this package contains will be written to 
> /usr/src/redhat/)
>     3.
> 
>        Change directory to /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/, and issue the 
> following command:
> 
>        rpmbuild -bp --target=<arch> kernel.spec
> 
>        (Where <arch> is the desired target architecture.)
> 
>        On a default RPM configuration, the kernel tree will be located 
> in /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/.
>     4.
> 
>        In resulting tree, the configurations for the specific kernels 
> shipped in Fedora Core 3 are in the /configs/ directory. For example, 
> the i686 SMP configuration file is named 
> /configs/kernel-<version>-i686-smp.config. Issue the following command 
> to place the desired configuration file in the proper place for building:
> 
>        cp <desired-file> ./.config
>     5.
> 
>        Issue the following command:
> 
>        make oldconfig
> 
> You can then proceed as usual.
> 
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