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Re: [PLUG] kernel config/compile sanity check
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On Sep 15, 2010, at 4:42 AM, JP Vossen wrote:
> Bonus question. I used to be familiar with packaging software into RPMs, but it's been a few years and I've never packaged a kernel for CentOS-5.x. What's the best HOWTO, and do you have any other hints?
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> Lee reminded me of http://www.asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/, but what wasn't quite what I was thinking of. I had something like this more in mind: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Custom_Kernel
I'd say the best way to get started is with an SRPM from CentOS. Going through their spec file (to do that I'd have an rpm build tree, and a .rpmmacro file that pointed at the build tree, and then do an rpm -i on the SRC rpm to extract the source, patches, and spec file and start from there.
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