Re: building rpms

[Bobby Castleberry <bobkat79@charter.net>]

i'm in chat on the ltsp channel and nobody has a source tarball for the ltsp kernel, i was told to go look at other projects and see if they have a source kernel that worked, anyway why does it defeat the purpose of rpm if you don't use pristine sources?  so what your saying is that to make a package i will have to figure out what menuconfig is doing to the actual kernel source and write a patch to configure it the correct way, uggg this is starting to look painfull, and all i wanted to do was to be able to back this out with a simple command instead of figuring out where all the files where and removing them by hand

Bob T. Kat

On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 01:08:51PM -0600, Steven Pritchard wrote:
> 
> It isn't a requirement, but if you don't make an rpm the right way
> (using pristine sources), it almost completely defeats the purpose of
> using rpm in the first place.
> 
> FWIW, I looked at the LTSP kernel rpm.  They build it from a tar file
> that contains, get this, *binaries*.  And here I thought we were
> working on a piece of open-source software...
> 

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