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

[John Mills]

James, all --

On 15 Aug 2002, James P. Kinney III wrote:

> >From this point it really is rpm simple. run the command:
> 
> rpm -bb /usr/src/redhat/SPEC/kernel.spec  (as root, duh!)

I am not getting this to work, and I'm not sure whether the spec isn't
being found, or if it specifies some other file which isn't found. The
spec _is_ present: I used filename completion to add it to the command.

I started with:
[root at lab_linux2 ~/incoming] mkdir /usr/src/redhat
[root at lab_linux2 ~/incoming] rpm -i kernel-2.4.18-5.src.rpm
[root at lab_linux2 SOURCES]# cd /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
[root at lab_linux2 SOURCES] ls
  [lots and lots of stuff, all at the same directory level, installed by
   RPM]
[root at lab_linux2 SOURCES] ls ../SPECS/
kernel-2.4.spec

I do:

[root at lab_linux2 SOURCES]# rpm -bb /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/kernel-2.4.spec
/usr/src/redhat/SPECS/kernel-2.4.spec: No such file or directory

'-v' and '-vv' options add nothing to the message. Do I need do specify a
target?

Which way do I have to face for this to work?

Thanks.

 - John Mills


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