[ale] (FA)Q: installed kernel SRPM - now what?

[John Mills]

ALErs -

I want to build a new kernel version on a RH-7.x system and remembered
reading that RedHat touched the kernel enough that it was a good idea to
use their source rather than a 'generic' tarball. Accordingly I captured a
copy of 'kernel-2.4.18-5.src.rpm', then obediently installed it:
 # rpm -i <etc>
which spat a _*load_ of stuff into '/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES'.

There is a 'linux-2.4.18.tar.bz2', a large number of patches to/from
different minor revs, and a bunch of mystery files - at least to me.

How do I go from here to a source tree in '/usr/src/linux-2.4.18'? I
thought the RPM approach would be simple - silly me!

Enquiring minds inquire ...

 - John Mills


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