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Dear Jon,

The reason why i want to have the suse version of 2.2.16 is that the
have patched quite a few things like reiserfs etc.

Joop.

By the way how can i build a lx_suse.rpm via build -bb lx_suse.rpm spec
file?

Jon Pennington wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 10:38:56PM -0500, Kelley Spoon wrote:
> > On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, David Porter wrote:
> >
> > > * Kelley Spoon <kspoon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > >
> > > That's right. At least with 6.2, the kernel source is called lx_suse.rpm and
> > > is located in the d1 section of the first disk.
> >
> > lx_suse.rpm just provides the kernel sources.  What I'm looking for is the
> > SRPM (has the spec file) so I can rebuild the binary RPMs.
> 
> Here's the thing; your question was (partially) answered, but you are
> looking for the wrong thing.  SuSE, unlike Red Hat, does not `build a
> binary RPM' for the kernel.  The breakdown is like so:
> 
> lx_suse.rpm contains the full kernel source for the appropriate version.
> This is not necessarily what you need, however.  When YaST (during
> installation) asks you what kernel type (there are a handful) you need
> for doing the installation, a .config file *for* that kernel is dropped
> in /usr/src/linux by default.  A standard installation uses the
> linclude.rpm file instead of lx_suse.rpm, which is the kernel headers.
> 
> Your solution is as follows:
> 
> 1) Find the configuration file, which should be /usr/src/linux/.config,
> and put it some place safe, like /root
> 
> 2) Get the 2.2.16 kernel source, perhaps like
> 
> cd /usr/src/
> rm linux # this is only a symlink; go ahead and remove it
> wget ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.2/linux-2.2.16.tar.bz2
> # must have wget installed; if you don't have it, you'll love it ;)
> tar xIvf linux-2.2.16.tar.bz2 # unpacks the kernel source
> mv linux linux-2.2.16
> ln -sf linux-2.2.16 linux # resets the symlink
> 
> 3) Put the .config file in /usr/src/linux again, and `make oldconfig
> menuconfig', which will set up the menuconfig options as SuSE had them,
> and then allow you to add support for your 3ware controller.
> 
> 4) make dep clean modules modules_install bzImage bzlilo
> 
> Reboot, and that should be it.  IMNSHO, SuSE's method makes a helluva
> lot more sense than `building a binary kernel RPM'.
> 
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