reconstructing the original source tree for Fedora 8
 

Hi everyone,

I am trying to recreate the source tree from which the kernel of my Fedora 8 distro has been built.

I unpacked the "kernel-2.6.23.1-42.fc8.src.rpm" file using "rpm -i ( as root )" and I wind up with a whole whack of files under
"/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/"

There are a series of "config-*" files and another batch of "linux-2.6-*.patch" files. And then there are these guys:

Config.mk
COPYING.modules
drm-mm-git.patch
find-provides
genkey
linux-2.6.23.tar.bz2
Makefile.config
merge.pl
nouveau-drm.patch
patch-2.6.23.1.bz2

I've looked around there is no "Readme" or "Install".

I have successfully patched and built vanilla kernels from "kernel.org" before so I am familiar with the kernel's "make" and "config" system
>but< this stuff appears to be arranged around the RedHat build system.

What do I do?

Just apply the patches to the source tree or is there some special
RedHat way of doing this?

I am grateful for any pointers.


Regards

Reza

Hi,

This is not like vanilla kernel and this is heavily patched for several workarounds with respect to Redhat/Fedora. So I think you should just patch and build the kernel. Hope this helps.

Thanks

Thanks greplinux for your response.

I managed to find to pages with instructions on this:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/CustomKernel

http://www.howtoforge.com/kernel_compilation_fedora

Regards

dar_beh_dar