Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kernel (48 mails)

[Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@xxxxxxxx>]

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snowcrash+opensuse wrote:
> hi jeff,
>
> > There is, unfortunately, no kernel-xen-source package. It's kind of a
> > sore spot. All the flavors, except Xen, are built from the same source
> > tree. There are additional patches that we apply to the Xen tree, and
> > then build it. As a result, they're not included in the kernel-source
> > package.
> >
> > We do have a kernel-source.src.rpm that can be used to build the
> > appropriate source tree, though.
>
> are those patches & process available/documented somewhere?
>
> currently, trying to do a build, i'm failing ...
>
>     https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=393142
>
> and now, given your comments, wonder if the missing "patches" are part
> of the cause ...

The patches are, yes. You can build the packages by grabbing the
kernel-source SRPM, then cd'ing to %_sourcedir
(/usr/src/packages/SOURCES, unless you've changed it) and doing rpmbuild
- -bb kernel-xen.spec. That will apply the right set of patches and you'll
end up with a xen kernel.

To build a xen kernel-source, do this:
echo "xen" > extra-symbols
rpmbuild -bb kernel-source.spec

To verify it's building the correct tree, make sure there's something
like "Architecture symbol(s): x86_64 xen" in the first 10 lines of output.

This will create a kernel-source package, but it will be fundamentally
incompatible with the shipping kernel-source package. It's *definitely*
a goal of ours to eliminate the need for multiple source packages for
this very reason.

- -Jeff

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Jeff Mahoney
SUSE Labs
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