Posted by: wfaulk
RedHat and kernel patches - 24/03/2005 18:04
I have a kernel patch that I want to apply to a RedHat 7.3 machine. I would like to have the kernel otherwise an exact copy of the kernel installed by RedHat.
What is the best way to do this?
Posted by: SuperQ
Re: RedHat and kernel patches - 24/03/2005 18:10
download the SRPM for the redhat kernel, and run rpm -i
put your patch file in /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
and add the 2 lines to the SPEC file.
(you will see a whole bunch of stuff about patching in the SPEC file)
then you can use rpmbuild to make a custom RPM fo the kernel
Posted by: wfaulk
Re: RedHat and kernel patches - 25/03/2005 13:30
Yup. Seemed to work.
I've got another question, though. The rpmbuild seemed to build quite a few kernels, like a plain one, a bigmem one, an smp one, etc. How do I install the right one? I need the smp kernel.