[mythtv-users] Fedora Core 2 Apt Repo and AtRPMs
huffman at graze.net
huffman at graze.net
Thu Sep 2 14:28:39 EDT 2004
papenfuss at vt.edu, Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at mythtv.org> wrote:
> > then do an rpmbuild -ba on the spec file and it will build you a new (almost
> > vanilla) FC2 kernel.
>
> Never heard of generic 'redhat' or 'fedora' and 'kernel' in the same
> sentence without a negative involved. I've never had any luck compiling a
> redhat-based kernel out-of-the-box because they have so many custom tweaks to
> it. A generic kernel is the only way to go if you have to compile one... (at
> least for me... YMMV). If you have to apply a patch for something, it's
pretty
> much your *only* way.
>
:-) I like that. It did work for me though and my mythtv is humming along
quite nicely on it. I'll agree - YMMV. The one additional thing that I should
note is that I had to specify the target architecture on the rpmbuild line.
This is my exact command: rpmbuild -ba --target=i686 kernel-2.6.spec
Brian
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