I'm a newbie to kernel compiling and package creation, and I guess just about anything in Linux. I have been using it a while, but been distro hoping a lot.

Would it be possible to download this directory to my home folder:
ftp://slackware.mirrors.tds.net/pub/...12.1/source/k/

Replace the 2.6.24 kernel with the 2.6.26 or 2.6.27 from kernel.org.
Edit each slackbuild in each of the folders in the directory to 2.6.26 or 2.6.27rc4

Run each slackbuild and then I should have up to date kernel packages I just install and then run the nvidia drivers script again.

or is it more complicated then this?

Why do you want packaging the kernel ? Just curious
Use the packages on other PCs ?

Yes I think you right, edit the kernel version on slackbuild and it should work in that case
but may require a 'make oldconfig' in the kernel source tree before as the new kernel may have new features

There's a guide to building a new kernel here:

http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/...kernelbuilding

I want packages so that I can uninstall and install easily.

I want packages so that I can uninstall and install easily using the package manager.

So what would be the best way to compile a Huge Slackware kernel just like the ones included in the Slackware DVD/CD/Online, so that I end up with a tgz file that I can install/uninstall with the package manager?

I would do it in 2 steps:
- Kernel compilation
- Kernel packaging

For the Kernel compilation:
- do it as Alien Bob tutorial, looks good

For the Kernel packaging:
- Now it is the tedious part, there is 2 packages to make: kernel and kernel-modules
Look at the file lists in /var/log/packages to give you an idea, look also at the corresponding scripts in /var/log/scripts
But I am sure Slackbuild scripts exists somewhere, look in slackware sources directories

I wonder if it is worth it to make a kernel package if you don't use it in other PCs...
If it is for install/uninstall, there is not advantage to make a package imho, you just replace the kernel in /boot and the modules in /lib/modules (and this last operation is done for you when you issue make modules_install in kernel compilation)

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You will have to install the kernel and modules before make the packages anyway
You wouldn't make a kernel package with an un-tested kernel, would you ?