Re: make rpm

Alan Cox
2001-07-29T00:37:16Z

> Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> said:
> > I've been meaning to do this one for a while and I now have it working so
> > that with my current -ac kernel working tree I can type
> >
> > make rpm
> >
> > and out puts kernel-2.4.7ac3-1.i386.rpm
>
> Great idea!
>
> Just the bunch of "echo this or that" is ugly as sin... why not a
> kernel.spec template that gets its version &c substituted by sed(1) or
> something?

Well for one because its easier to hack on at the moment. I still need to
finish up packing the right pieces, and also checking if the user
has an /sbin/installkernel and also if they are not using GRUB need to then
rerun lilo

Alan