hi, Is there some special way to setup the kernel source tree when building from an rpm? Or is what Im doing ok and expected? (hehehe...highly unlikely)
I installed the kernel source rpm, ran "rpmbuild -ba ..." on it, and it gives me a tree in /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-<version>/linux-<version>, which I make per normal. The result is a bootable, apparently perfectly ok kernel with 'xen' appended, as in: vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.1.3el5xen I looked in .config and xen is not enabled, nor are there any xen services or logs on the system. On another system I instead used "rpmbuild -bp ...", and this time got a 'prep' appended. I can see why I would get 'prep', as it was the only step performed in "rpmbuild -bp ...". But 'xen'? I haven't a clue...except its likely im not using rpmbuild correctly in setting up the tree. Mostly I build bz2 kernel tarballs from kernel.org, so never have built from rpm before. Why its setting EXTRAVERSION = -8.1.3.el5xen in the makefile is mysterious thanks, -m
