On Wed, 12 Feb 2014, poma wrote:
On 11.02.2014 23:41, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> last question about "building kernel" wiki page, i promise. here:
>
>
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Building_a_custom_kernel#Build_the_New_Kernel
>
> one reads:
>
> "To build with firmware included, do:
>
> rpmbuild -bb --with baseonly --with firmware --without debuginfo \
> --target=`uname -m` kernel.spec "
>
> i've examined the kernel.spec file and i see nothing about firmware
> there. further down that page, one reads:
>
> "su -c "rpm -ivh
> $HOME/rpmbuild/RPMS/<arch>/kernel-<version>.<arch>.rpm \
>
$HOME/rpmbuild/RPMS/<arch>/kernel-firmware-<version>.<arch>.rpm \
>
$HOME/rpmbuild/RPMS/<arch>/kernel-headers-<version>.<arch>.rpm \
>
$HOME/rpmbuild/RPMS/<arch>/kernel-devel-<version>.<arch>.rpm"
>
> but i just did a build "--with firmware" and i see no generated
> "kernel-firmware" rpm. did that *used* to exist? can someone clarify
> this?
>
> just FYI, i'm writing a wiki page that i want to use in an upcoming
> fedora admin course, and i want to make sure that the recipe i give is
> absolutely accurate; hence, my obsession with technical pedantry.
>
> rday
>
"Drop the kernel-firmware subpackage from the spec file"
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/kernel.git/commit/kernel.spec?id=eb0d5...
ah, thank you, i've updated the fedora wiki page to remove
references to building the firmware package.
rday
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