Re: [Lug-Nuts] Compiling the Kernel from Red Hat source

From: Marc Matteo (mmatteo@sacbee.com)
Date: Thu Feb 17 2000 - 07:54:26 PST


> To minimize all the question answering do a make oldconfig and it uses
your

Actually, I did that... had to start somewhere :).

2.2.14 built and everything worked - with and without an EXTRAVERSION set.
Hmmm, bug in the Red Hat sources maybe?

Now, I just have to get FreeS/WAN to work with the Bee's Cisco PIX firewall.
:)

Marc

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----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Tyson" <tysons@deepwell.com> To: <lug-nuts@saclug.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 4:44 PM Subject: Re: [Lug-Nuts] Compiling the Kernel from Red Hat source

> To minimize all the question answering do a make oldconfig and it uses your > previous .config file (assuming you put it into the new linux source tree). > This is how I've done all of my kernel compiles. I use the .config file that > came with my redhat 6.0 box and I'm on 2.2.14 now. The oldconfig will only > ask you the questions that are new to that version of the kernel. Pretty > painless. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Marc Matteo" <mmatteo@sacbee.com> > To: <lug-nuts@saclug.org> > Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 11:55 PM > Subject: Re: [Lug-Nuts] Compiling the Kernel from Red Hat source > > > > > rm -rf /lib/modules/2.2.12-20 > > > > See, you're the second person to point that out. > > > > Why does that work? Yeah, I know that it does work but dang it, I > shouldn't > > hafta delete old versions of things. By adding stuff to EXTRAVERSION in > the > > toplevel makefile this shouldn't be an issue. > > > > The default EXTRAVERSION in the Red Hat sources is "-20" so that you get a > > kernel version of "2.2.12-20". In theory, if I change EXTRAVERSION to > > "-20test" I should get a kernel version of "2.2.12-20test" and my modules > > will be in "/lib/modules/2.2.12-20test/" thereby nicely avoiding > overwriting > > my old versions. > > > > That part works, I did it. > > > > Problem is, something, somewhere is still looking for symbol info under > > 2.2.12-20 and that ain't right. > > > > (EXTRAVERSION, by the way, is not a Red Hat thing, it's part of the 2.2 > > tree) > > > > Well, for what it's worth, I just finished building 2.2.14. Hopefully > > that'll just work around the problem. Ugh, I really didn't want to answer > > all those &#@$% yes/module/no questions... :). > > > > Marc > > -- > > Marc Matteo > > Online Technology Leader > > http://www.sacbee.com > > > > > > ********************************************************** > > * Sacramento Linux Users Group Mailing List > > * > > * Unsubscribe: Send a message to majordomo@saclug.org > > * With 'unsubscribe lug-nuts' in the body > > * > > * http://www.saclug.org > > > > > > ********************************************************** > * Sacramento Linux Users Group Mailing List > * > * Unsubscribe: Send a message to majordomo@saclug.org > * With 'unsubscribe lug-nuts' in the body > * > * http://www.saclug.org >

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