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Re: is kernel release no. match essential?
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Dushan Mitrovich <[log in to unmask]>
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Dushan Mitrovich <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Wed, 7 Jun 2006 23:17:19 -0700
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Connie Sieh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Dushan Mitrovich wrote:
>
>> Connie Sieh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> >On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Dushan Mitrovich wrote:
>> >
>> >> I have Sl 4.2, whose kernel is 2.6.9-22.0.1.EL, and am trying, so far un-
>> >> successfully, to recompile it to provide HPFS support for the OS/2 file
>> >> system.  To help me try to figure out the problem I downloaded the kernel
>> >> source rpm to get at the kernel-2.6.spec file, but in my optimism got the
>> >> version for 2.6.9-34.0.1.EL instead (thinking I might as well ugdate).
>> >>
>> >> Now I'm wondering whether this was a mistake, because the kernel release
>> >> numbers may need to match exactly for a 'build' operation.  Is that the
>> >> case?
>> >
>> > Build what?
>>
>> What I meant was concoct a new, updated kernel.  Maybe I should have said
>> 'rpmbuild', but I'm not sure of the terminology.
>>
>> > If you have created the kernel source tree via the
>> > 2.6.9-34.0.1.EL.src.rpm then you will end up with a 2.6.9-34.0.1.EL
>> > kernel.
>>
>> Yes, that's my understanding, but I haven't created that source tree yet.
>> Right now all I have is what's in the 2.6.9-22.0.1.EL directory.
>>
>> >> I'm only thinking the new 'build' might be necessary because of missing
>> >> files that the recompile operation calls for, including
>> >>
>> >>   for 'make mrproper'    the file  'Documentation/DocBook/Makefile'
>> >>
>> >> and
>> >>   for 'make rpm'     \ / the files 'include/asm-i386/asm_offsets.h'
>> >>    or 'make bzImage' / \           'include/asm-i386/asm_offsets.h.tmp'
>> >>                         \      and 'arch/i386/kernel/asm-offsets.s'
>> >
>> > How did you get the kernel source tree out of 2.6.9-34.0.1.EL.src.rpm .
>> > It seems that you are missing things.
>>
>> I'm sure I am, and I haven't got the source tree yet, not being sure how to
>> do it.  In fact, do I even need to, to get past the missing files problems?
>
> Download the kernel-....src.rpm for the kernel you want to build.  They
> are located at
> 
> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/4x/SRPMS/vendor/errata/
> 
> Read the instructions that are part of
> 
> /usr/share/doc/sl-release*/RELEASE-NOTES-x86_64-en
> 
>                        or RELEASE-NOTES-x86-en
> 
> Note the special instructions for just making a kernel module.

Thanks, I'll refer to the release notes.

- Dushan

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