[ale] What to do w/kernel.rpm

[Zephaniah E. Hull]

I do have one question, why use the RPM at all?

Zephaniah E, Hull
On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, <Ezra Lee> wrote:

> Hey, how goes it?
> 
> I think the best way to do this would be to unpack the rpm with glint or
> command-line (rpm -i kernel-2_0_32-2_src.rpm; it's in man rpm).
> Afterwards, the source tree should be in /usr/src/linux/. From there,
> follow Linus's directions.
> I'm not sure of this, but I think the only deal with the rpm, is that it
> contains the source and dir info. 
> Like I said I'm sure, and others could be more confident on this, but it's
> late and thought you'd like a response tonight.
> 
> Good luck,
> Ezra
> 
> On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, Laith Elias Haddadin wrote:
> 
> > I wanted to recompile my kernel to the latest version that redhat has.  I
> > went ahead and got the kernel-2_0_32-2_src.rpm and have no clue how to get
> > going from here (the file size is 7226KB).  I understand the procedures
> > how to recompile a kernel, but I don't know how to do it with the rpm
> > packages.  Could someone lead me in the right direction.  I'm currently
> > running RH4.2 kernel version 2.0.30. (another reason for recompiling is
> > the need for SCSI support).
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 	Laith E.H.
> > 
> > ___________________________________________________________________					
> > 			-Laith Elias Haddadin (laith at cc.gatech.edu)
> > 
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