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From: "Jim Roland" <jroland@roland.net>
To: "David Woodhouse" <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: "J. Dow" <jdow@earthlink.net>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: RedHat kernel RPM 2.2.16 
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 21:09:14 -0600
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AH HA!  Thanks!


----- Original Message -----
From: "David Woodhouse" <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: "Jim Roland" <jroland@roland.net>
Cc: "J. Dow" <jdow@earthlink.net>; <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 2:37 AM
Subject: Re: RedHat kernel RPM 2.2.16


>
> jroland@roland.net said:
> >  FWIW, the rpm -i did unpack the kernel to the /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
> > directory, however, I had to manually untar the sources to /usr/src to
> > get my kernel, move over the appropriate .config file, and manually
> > run the patches to patch the sources.  Forcing RPM to be very
> > talkative (via -vv) gave me a bunch of "action unknown" errors, and
> > the rpm's install scripts did not execute.  This occurs on an RH7
> > system as well.  Seems to be something wrong with RH's kernel rpm?
>
> Install the kernel-source binary RPM, which contains the build tree
already
> extracted and set up as you desire, instead of the master SRPM which
> contains build instructions for all the kernel versions.
>
> i.e. kernel-source-2.2.16-3.i386.rpm, not kernel-2.2.16-3.src.rpm
>
> --
> dwmw2
>
>

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