I have installed oS 12.1 x64 on my notebook (ASUS EeePC 1201T). I experienced some problems, e.g. random freezing, since I have the new Kernel. At least, I suspect that the Kernel is the cause. So I’m trying to build a RPM package. I downloaded the kernel-source 2.6.37 from openSUSE 11.4, unpacked them and build them (with rpmbuild). I have them installed. The Linux Kernel is located in /usr/src/linux.
I googled alot and couldn’t a clear guide how to build an Kernel on openSUSE; at least not one that creates a RPM package.
I ran “make binrpm-pkg” as well as “make rpm” without success. It stops after a lot of time (too bad, the notebook is very slow…) and shows something about a shellscript located in /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.<random-6-character-string>. It seems to be a build script. It set’s some variables and runs make clean && make.
The errors show something about an %build. That has to be something with a spec file, but I’m not very familiar with it. I can’t get the message now. I’m running the notebook in runlevel 3 and the buffer issn’t that big as it seems. I’m re-running “make rpm” and I’ll ad the code as far as it is ready.
However, the kernel compiles fine if I’m running just “make”.
Nice script you have there, but it doesn’t seem to build an RPM. I’d compile the Kernel and install them using “make install” and “make modules_install”, but it will be harder to remove it. So I want to do it like openSUSE maintainer does it. Another important point is: I’m not 100% sure if the Kernel is the cause for my freezing problem, so I wanted to have exact the same Kernel I had while I had oS 11.4.
Thanks anyway.
You would have to build the new kernel and its three files before you could put them into an rpm and in fact you could build one from the files in /boot I guess if you wanted to. It Is kind of the chicken and egg thing. You got to have a kernel built, before you could make an rpm of it and once you already had it in /boot you should just go ahead and see if it works first. Consider that sakc does not remove any other kernels, leaving all else alone when it installs a new kernel. In any event, good luck in your adventure.
On 2012-01-29 01:16, Ctwx wrote:
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> Nice script you have there, but it doesn’t seem to build an RPM. I’d
> compile the Kernel and install them using “make install” and “make
> modules_install”, but it will be harder to remove it.
Not really. The first trick is to build it with a different name, so that
it doesn’t clash.
The sequence is this:
make cloneconfig (it copies the configuration of the running kernel
as far as possible)
make menuconfig
you get an editor of kernel options. Probably thousands. Don’t worry, you
only have to change one thing. On line number 4 it says “General setup
—>”. Enter it. You will see another line like:
(-0.11-desktop) Local version - append to kernel release
select it and change the name. Doesn’t really matter what, I would put
something like “-0.11-mydesktop”. Now exit and save, then make it all, and
install it.
Part of the kernel goes to /boot (it should also make an entry in
grub/menu.lst), and a lot of modules go into
/lib/modules/kernelversion-mydesktop/*.
For removal, you only have to delete that entire dir and the files in /boot.
> so I
> wanted to have exact the same Kernel I had while I had oS 11.4.
You could try with a ready built rpm for 11.4. Not sure if it would work,
tough.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
The Kernel headers didn’t fit. The Kernel 3.1 headers doesn’t contain some of the required headers. I added “-I/usr/src/linux/2.6.37.6-0.11/include” to the makefile. Now it compiles.
On 2012-01-30 17:46, Ctwx wrote:
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> The Kernel headers didn’t fit. The Kernel 3.1 headers doesn’t contain
> some of the required headers. I added
> “-I/usr/src/linux/2.6.37.6-0.11/include” to the makefile. Now it
> compiles.
Interesting.
> Thanks a lot for your help!
welcome!
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
Okay, my first try wasn’t the way I wanted it to be. When I posted my that I succesfully compiled the kernel and creating a RPM file, I used “make rpm” to do so. Now I copied the contents of the kernel-source to $HOME/rpmbuild/SOURCE, created a patch that adds -I/usr/src/linux/include (to fix the problem that occurred when I started this thread) to the HOSTCFLAGS in the main Makefile.
However, I wanted to know, how does this rpm stuff works? I mean, how can I rebuilt a package? I unpacked the source files so I had the spec files, Kernel source, patches, etc in $HOME/rpmbuild/SOURCE. I mean, how can things like this missing video driver happen? The Kernel should use it’s own kernel-headers, which I couldn’t install because I had the newer glibc version installed. (Some glibc package contains now the kernel headers…)
So I had to trick a bit to get the compiler to do it’s job. (It took me almost 5 days for my final solution. ;))
Soooo… Is there any “openSUSE” way to rebuild a package? Is there an manual or something like this? I couldn’t found something. And when I found something, it was mostly obsolete. So… What to do?
On 2012-02-03 00:46, Ctwx wrote:
> Soooo… Is there any “openSUSE” way to rebuild a package? Is there an
> manual or something like this? I couldn’t found something. And when I
> found something, it was mostly obsolete. So… What to do?
Most people don’t build a kernel rpm. And many devs do not write
instructions.
There should be notes in the wiki, I think. The kernel has some readme
files and other documents, but I don’t remember if they explain how to
build the rpm.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
