linux kernel recompile

[Keith Antoine]

On Thursday 30 May 2002 07:37 am, you wrote:
> On Thu, 30 May 2002, Keith Antoine wrote:
> > Ok! No it really does not, but you writing is gorgeous <grin>.....
> > I have seen and noted for experimentation that there is a swithch in rpm
> > (rpm -ta) that is supposed to make an rpm out of a tarball: rpm -ta
> > vcr.xx-xx-x.tar.gz .......I have yet to try it successfully on a file
> > that does not have any dependencies but am too busy doing small libs and
> > video files with checkinstall.
> >
> > However i will have to get to see if it does work and also look at making
> > rpms for files that do not do a 'make install'.
>
> It will only work if the tarball includes a spec file.

Hell! now he tells me; do you do this on purpose Lonnie, wait and then 
pounce?

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Keith Antoine (GANDALF) aka 'skippy'
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Retired Geriatric, Sometime Electronics Engineer, Knowall, Brain in storage