[sclug] Building a kernel

[Alex Butcher]

On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Derek M Jones wrote:

> All,
> 
> Building a working kernel seems to have become
> a lot more difficult since I last did it 3-4 years ago.

Indeed. Especially with all the patches that need to be applied to the
vanilla Linus/Marcelo tree in order to end up with something like a
functional kernel.

My preferred approach (with RH-like distros, at least) is to install the
kernel...src.rpm, edit the .spec file and .config, then rebuild to a set of
RPMs. That way, your package database stays sane, and you get all the
patches that RH's kernel experts deem necessary for a working system.

That said, with "kitchen sink" modular kernels, there should be little need
for most people to roll their own kernels, these days.

> derek

HTH,
Alex.
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