FC3 Kernel Rebuild Nightmare

[rudi]

This must be one of the worst kernel distributions I have seen.
First of all I had to hunt it down and download it separately
from: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.9-1.667.src.rpm
I do not understand why it was not included on the CDs. Try
downloading 40Mb with a 128Kbit connection - takes forever.
Anyway, got the source RPMS, installed it.

Now the fun begins. There are 13 patches included. No info
in which order or if at all they should be applied. What
do they do ? Which one do I need ? Ok, I will ignore them
for now, lets just build a custom kernel.

Trying to do "make xconfig" - can't 'qt' libs are missing.
Ok, installed the 'qt' libs, and still can't do a "make xconfig".

Thats with a x86_64 distribution. Damn, did anybody test this
at all ? Sorry, just very frustrated here ...

Anybody has any insights to the patches and why make xconfig
does not find the qt libs even if they are installed (I did
do ldconfig).

Yes, I did use menuconfig ....

Thanks,
rudi :confused:

[Picomp314]

what the hell???
the kernel-source package no longer exists, the .src.rpm is something different entirely
my suggestion is to download a vanilla kernel from http://www.kernel.org and compile yourself
what are you talking about with these "13 patches" wtf????
what the hell are you trying to accomplish?

[TreStylez]

What do you mean the src.rpm is something different ? It contains the Kernel source as far as i am aware.

[rudi]

> what the hell???
> the kernel-source package no longer exists, the .src.rpm is something different

Well after long investigations, I came to the conclusion that all the patches including
some for older kernels are not needed. Whey where they included is beyond me ...
The src.rpm DID contain the 2.6.9 kernel sources. The thing that threw me off is all
the additional garbage that was included as well without any "readme" file.

> entirely my suggestion is to download a vanilla kernel from http://www.kernel.org
> and compile yourself what are you talking about with these "13 patches" wtf????

Yes thats what I ended up doing ...

> what the hell are you trying to accomplish?

Just to compile a custom kernel !

Cheers,
rudi (feeling a bit better now :*)