Fedora kernel rpmbuild query

[Shraddha Kamat]

On Wed, 2012-12-26 at 14:29 +0530, Pritam Bankar wrote:
> Hi Shraddha,
> 
> Please find my comments below,
> 
> On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Shraddha Kamat <sh2008ka at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi List,
> >
> > I do the following on Fedora kernel src rpm :
> > (1) rpm -ivh kernel-xxx.rpm
> > (2) Go to ~/rpmbuild/SPECS dir
> > (2) rpmbuild -bp kernel.specs --nodeps
> >
> > then in the ~/rpmbuild/BUILD/ dir I get kernel-xxx dir
> > where in there are two source dir -
> > (1) linux-xxx           <-------- A
> > (2) vanilla-xxx         <-------- B
> >
> > Why are these two dir created - How do I use the configuration file
> > /boot/config-xxx to build vmlinuz and initrd image ?
> 
> Directory B is vanilla kernel source which is standard kernel source.
> This is a same source which is available on kernel.org
> 
> Directory A is actually for source which has been modified by user. In
> this case it will have patches from FEDORA above standard kernel from
> kernel.org.
> 
> To build vmlinuz and initrd image copy /boot/config-xxx  to Directory
> A (linux-xxx) and run "sudo make oldconfig" then follow normal
> compilation steps
> >
> > Which dir A or B sould I use for building ?
> 
> You should be using directory A
> 
> 
Sure, I guessed so and did this only, but just to confirm I posted in
the list It worked ! 
Thank you very much for you reply!
> >
> >
> > -- Shraddha
> >
> >
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> Thanks,
> Pritam