Thank you for the info! Where do you get the config file for kernel rebuild( This one: ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/config-4.14.13-x86_64 )?
On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 3:14 PM, Phil Perry <p...@elrepo.org> wrote: > On 29/08/18 20:46, Alan Bartlett wrote: > >> On 29 August 2018 at 02:08, Andrew Gurinovich <altm...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hello. >>> I would like to rebuild the whole elrepo with custom compiler flags for >>> personal use. >>> Can you please suggest, how the rpms are being build right now? >>> >> >> I can only speak for the kernel (kernel-lt & kernel-ml) build process. >> Mock is used to provide a clean, controlled, chroot environment for >> the native OS. That is RHEL6 and RHEL7. >> >> When I'm trying to rpmbuild from spec files, there are no sources in >>> /home/user/rpmbuild >>> When I'm trying to build kernel-ml, there is no config file. >>> >> >> Install the .nosrc.rpm package into your private rpmbuild directory >> structure and drop the relevant linux-4.X.Y.tar.xz file (obtained from >> upstream, kernel.org) into you SOURCES/ directory. >> >> Alan. >> > > The rest of the repo is built likewise, in mock. > > All kmod .src.rpms should rebuild cleanly against the latest RHEL kernel. > There are some exceptions, notably .nosrc.rpms which do not contain the > upstream tarball to save space/bandwidth. As Alan mentioned above, for any > .nosrc.rpms you will need to fetch the upstream source tarball in addition > to the .nosrc.rpm, which should always be linked towards the start of the > SPEC file. > > Generally, kmod packages do not _need_ to be built in mock as typically > they do not link anything other than the kernel they are built against; > anything else should always be built in mock for consistency. > > Rebuilding kmod packages will result in kernel modules which are not > signed by elrepo for Secure Boot. If you are using Secure Boot you will > probably want to sign the modules with your own signing key. There is logic > in the SPEC file to allow for this from the command line at build time. If > doing this in mock, you will need to install your signing keys into your > build root before building. > > The VirtualGL-libs i686 package on el7 has hints in the SPEC file how to > build as there is no 32-bit rhel7 tree to build against in mock. > > Hope that helps. > > Phil > > _______________________________________________ > elrepo mailing list > elrepo@lists.elrepo.org > http://lists.elrepo.org/mailman/listinfo/elrepo >
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