Steps for compiling a custom kernel not working

[grumpy2]

Hello everybody,

I am following the steps for compiling a custom kernel from here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/CustomKernel

I issue the following commands as regular user:

cd; rpmdev-setuptree
(this creates a rpmbuild directory in my home directory)

yumdownloader --source kernel
The result is:

Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Enabling fedora-source repository
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/yumdownloader", line 190, in <module>
util = YumDownloader()
File "/usr/bin/yumdownloader", line 41, in __init__
self.main()
File "/usr/bin/yumdownloader", line 67, in main
self.setupSourceRepos()
File "/usr/bin/yumdownloader", line 80, in setupSourceRepos
self._getRepos(thisrepo=r.id,doSetup=True)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 341, in _getRepos
repo.setup(self.conf.cache, self.mediagrabber)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 634, in setup
self.dirSetup()
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 439, in dirSetup
"Cannot access repository dir %s" % dir
yum.Errors.RepoError: Cannot access repository dir /var/tmp/yum-<username>-bT6Ghr/fedora-source

-- where <username> is my user name

What could I do to fix this? The directory /var/tmp/yum-<username>-bT6Ghr/ exists, is accesible - but yumdownloader does not want to create the directory fedora-source and its sub-directories by itself. If I create those directories manually, yumdownloader finally complains about a missing xml file.

Thanks,
Ovidiu

[grumpy2]

I forgot to say that I am using Fedora 7 with all updates. Please let me know if you need additional information.

[nick.stumpos]

are you sure your enabling the right repo, im not on fc now so i cant check what it should be, but it is odd that it should error on just d/ling the source unless you are trying to grab a file from a place it is not

[grumpy2]

Hi Nickisgod,

Thanks for the response. Here's what I have - I think this should work by default, do I need to enable anything?

[user@machine ~]$ ls /etc/yum.repos.d/
fedora-development.repo fedora-updates.repo
fedora.repo fedora-updates-testing.repo
[user@machine ~]$ more /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo
[updates]
name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch - Updates
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/$releasever/$basearch/
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-f$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora

[updates-debuginfo]
name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch - Updates - Debug
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/$releasever/$basearch/debug/
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-debug-f$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora

[updates-source]
name=Fedora $releasever - Updates Source
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/$releasever/SRPMS/
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-source-f$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora

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Regards,
Ovidiu