Hi,
Not sure who to report this correction to, so took a took best guess and
posted this to docs team.
This following URL
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Building_a_custom_kernel
gave a wonderful update to building Fedora12. Everything is great except a
minor thing. It is as follows ...
In the step
- 1.3 Copy the Source Tree and Generate a
Patch<http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Building_a_custom_kernel#Copy_the_...
once the 'diff' is done to generate the patch, the tree under the directory
~/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-2.6.$
ver/linux-2.6.$ver.$arch/
could *have* files ending in "*.orig" should any update be done via
"patch".
Basically I applied patches to the tree instead of hand editing the files.
This left some files with "*.orig".
If this tree is left like this, once the steps, particularly
- 1.5 Prepare Build
Files<http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Building_a_custom_kernel#Prepare_B...
is done and if one attempts
- 1.6 Build the New
Kernel<http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Building_a_custom_kernel#Build_th...
it *could* fail, if the any patches that get applied from the original
source itself had to generate "*.orig" file or have clashes. So workaround I
had to use is,
after
- 1.3 Copy the Source Tree and Generate a
Patch<http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Building_a_custom_kernel#Copy_the_...
is done, I did
cd ~/rpmbuild/BUILD # which would be so, by end of
1.3 anyway,
# so not really
necessary but)
find . -name "*.orig" -exec rm -f {} \; # Removes the stale *.orig
files
Then rest of the doc works as suggested. This correction would be great.
FYI
--
Murthy V Mamidi