From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 Description of problem: /usr/src/linux-2.4/Makefile atttemps to run rpm -ta in order to build kernel*rpm. In RH 8.0 the correct command is rpmbuild Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.rpm -i kernel-source-2.4.18-18.8.0 2.choose any way to create /usr/src/linux-2.4/.config 3.make rpm Actual Results: final output after make rpm (in /usr/src/linux-2.4)looks like this: kernel-2.4.1818.8.0custom/./.version -ta: unknown option make: *** [rpm] Error 1 Expected Results: kernel build + binary rpm of kernel Additional info: rpm should be replaced with rpmbuild in Makefile
If rpmbuild exists - the base kernel stuff has to work on all distros Its now on my todo list
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