On Tuesday 05 August 2003 06:09, Élie Charest wrote: > Le 4 Août 2003 16:52, Thomas Backlund a écrit : > > Use the flags man ... ;-) > > > > rpm -ba kernel_srpm_name --without up --without smp --without > > secure --without doc --without BOOT > > > > will build only the enterprise kernel and the kernel-source ... > > Mmm...actually that doesn't work on my system. It says that the file > kernel-2.4.21.6.5tmb-1-1mdk.src.rpm is not a "spec file". >
Yes use rpm --rebuild for .src.rpm, and -ba for .spec files. > I'm not too familiar with .src.rpm files... it seems the only thing I can > build from the source package file with rpmbuild (my next logical guess) is > the binary, but I need the kernel-source file to compile the NVIDIA > drivers. > > How would I go about building the source file from the source package > (.src.rpm)? > > Sorry if this is a newbie question...I'm more used to compiling from source > and straight RPM. Ican't use the straight RPM here as the NVIDIA installer > will complain that it has not been compiled with the same compiler as the > one I have (gcc-3.2.3-1mdk) and refuse to compile the module. > > Thanks!
