 | | | make rpm fails | make rpm fails 2003-05-02 - By Jeremy Portzer
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On Fri, 2003-05-02 at 16:13, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote:
> Well, not right away it won 't.
>
> I looked in /usr/src/linux-2.4, where the source code is, and there is a
> "kernel.spec " file there. I copied this to match the custom name:
>
> cp kernel.spec kernel-2.4.209custom.spec
>
> Then I ran the command:
> [root@(protected) linux-2.4]# rpmbuild -ba kernel-2.4.209custom.spec
> error: File /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/kernel-2.4.209custom.tar.gz: No such
> file or directory
> [root@(protected) linux-2.4]#
>
> Looking in the .spec file, I find no mention of SOURCES. "info
> rpmbuild " doesn 't address this in any way that makes sense to me, so I
> have to ask, what should I do about this? How does the tgz kernel file
> get into SOURCES, or what else is supposed to happen?
>
Um, the specfile you attached is not the Red Hat Linux specfile. You
need to download the kernel- <version >.src.rpm (called an SRPM). Not
the kernel-source- <version >.i386.rpm, which is used for building custom
kernels outside of the RPM build system. You may want to read one of
the many HOWTOs or help sites on building RPMs first, as you really
should understand the basics before delving into the kernel specfile.
--Jeremy
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