[PLUG] RH 8.0 Kernel Compiling

[Kyle Accardi]

Galen Seitz wrote:
>>>While it's true that all the patches are in a single src rpm, each patch is
>>>in a separate file.  The patch filenames give a pretty good indication of
>>>what is in each patch.  Diffing against a standard kernel shouldn't be
>>>necessary.
>>
>>
>>Cool, where are they in the tree?
>>
> 
> 
> If you install the src rpm, you should find the pristine tarball along 
> with the patches in the redhat/SOURCES directory.  When you build, the
> tarball gets untarred in the redhat/BUILD directory, then the patches
> are applied to that tree.


Hmm,

$ rpm -q kernel-source
kernel-source-2.4.18-3
kernel-source-2.4.18-17.7.x

$ ls -l /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/
total 0

browsing kernel-source-2.4.18-18.7.x.i386.rpm
looks like everything gets dumped into /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-18.7.x

Confused,
Kyle Accardi