Building kernel on non-Fedora systems

[Richard A. Smith]

Denver Gingerich wrote:

> 
> Has any work been done on removing the dependency on Fedora Core for
> kernel building?  Can someone provide a brief list of the reasons for
> this dependency so that those interested in fixing it can do so?

Michael stone pointed me at the kernels existing 'make binrpm-pkg' one 
evening and using the olpc config file I used this to create an rpm on a 
debian ubuntu system without any of the Fedora stuff.

This kernel booted fine and ran fine.  The problems I had were in the 
modules. I was not able to get the depmod to quit whining but later 
conversations with mstone showed that I was probably not running the 
right depmod command.  My testing only needed stuff that was static so I 
didn't care at the time.

> without RPM.  Being able to build the kernel binary seems to be
> sufficient for most development purposes as a developer could just add
> the new binary to /boot and update the /boot/vmlinuz symlink or update
> olpc.fth.

/boot is not really /boot . :)  /boot is really 
'/versions/boot/current/boot'. you must put your kernel there or it 
won't be used.

-- 
Richard Smith  <richard at laptop.org>
One Laptop Per Child