This is day # 12 of me trying to get a /usr/src/linux-2.6.9-22.EL directory tree. I am using CentOS 4.1 with kernel version 2.6.9-11.EL. To my unpleasant surprise, I discovered that for some reason CentOS decided to exclude the /usr/src/linux-2.6.9-22.EL directory tree. So far I downloaded kernel-2.6.9-22.EL.src.rpm and did this:

1.) rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.9-22.EL.src.rpm
2.) rpmbuild -bp --target=i686 kernel-2.6.spec in /usr/src/redhat/SPECS

I immediately get this:

Building target platforms: i686
Building for target i686
error: Failed build dependencies:

sh-utils is needed by kernel-2.6.9-22.EL.i686
tar is needed by kernel-2.6.9-22.EL.i686
perl is needed by kernel-2.6.9-22.EL.i686
gnupg is needed by kernel-2.6.9-22.EL.i686
gcc >= 2.96-98 is needed by kernel-2.6.9-22.EL.i686
redhat-rpm-config is needed by kernel-2.6.9-22.EL.i686

So now I am really confused. I have tar, perl, and gcc version 3.4.3 so I have no clue as to why rpm build script thinks I don't have them when I very much do have them. Aaaaagh!

I have no idea what is going on. What can I do? I can only assume that I should download and install sh-utils, gnupg, and redhat-rpm-config but what about tar, perl, and gcc is really there. They are all in my path too (just in case you think they aren't). If it turns out that I can't get this going, does anyone have any idea how I can get a /usr/src/linux-2.6.9-blah directory tree?!? Any help is always appreciated...

Check the spec and make sure what versions its calling for. And if you know for sure these dependencies are installed, just remove them from the spec file so it doesn't complain about them, or just simply do a --nodeps option when building the RPM..