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>A.1. How to produce openMosix's Kernel RPM files</H1
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> A step-by-step guide for the dumb release manager and the adventurous
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"do it yourself" RPM packager , by Mirko Caserta</P
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>Install a RedHat 8 (psyche) on your machine. This is so far the
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platform used to produce the rpms and it's known to do its job
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>Get an updated copy of the "linux-openmosix" module from oM's CVS
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repository - details can be found at
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http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=46729</P
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>Get the tarball for the Linux Kernel sources which we are going to
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patch and put it in /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES - supposing we're
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talking about a 2.4.20 Kernel, get the linux-2.4.20.tar.bz2 file
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from one of the many http://www.kernel.org/ mirrors worldwide</P
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>Unpack the kernel tarball under /usr/src, ie:
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> # cd /usr/src
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# tar vxjf redhat/SOURCES/linux-2.4.20.tar.bz2</PRE
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>Make a symbolic link to the directory where you've checked out the
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linux-openmosix module, for instance:
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> # ln -s /home/mcaserta/src/linux-openmosix/linux-openmosix \
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/usr/src/linux-openmosix</PRE
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>copy the .spec file and all the .config files which are found in
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this directory under /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES, ie:
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> # cp /usr/src/linux-openmosix/configs/openmosix-kernel.spec \
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/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
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# cp /usr/src/linux-openmosix/configs/*.config \
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/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES</PRE
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> Now it's time to check the version numbers before we make the patch
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file: make sure the very first lines in
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> /usr/src/linux-openmosix/Makefile and
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/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/openmosix-kernel.spec have the correct</PRE
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kernel version and openMosix revision number</P
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> Good, time to make the patch (suppose we're releasing a patch for
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the 2.4.20 Linux Kernel and the 3rd release of openMosix):
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> # cd /usr/src
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# diff -Naur --exclude=CVS --exclude=configs \
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linux-2.4.20 linux-openmosix > \
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/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/openMosix-2.4.20-3
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# bzip2 /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/openMosix-2.4.20-3</PRE
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> At this point your /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES directory should look like:
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> # ls /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
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kernel-2.4.20-athlon.config kernel-2.4.20-i686-smp.config
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kernel-2.4.20-athlon-smp.config linux-2.4.20.tar.bz2
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kernel-2.4.20-i386.config openMosix-2.4.20-3.bz2
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kernel-2.4.20-i686.config openmosix-kernel.spec</PRE
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> Now you only need to rpmbuild the whole thing - what I usually do is:
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> # cd /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
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# rpmbuild -ba --target i386 openmosix-kernel.spec
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# rpmbuild -bb --target i686 openmosix-kernel.spec
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# rpmbuild -bb --target athlon openmosix-kernel.spec</PRE
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but you can easily build all rpms by calling:
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> # rpmbuild -ba --target all_x86 openmosix-kernel.spec</PRE
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> After rpmbuild has done its job, you should have the following
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> a) RPMS/i386/openmosix-kernel-2.4.20-openmosix3.i386.rpm
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b) RPMS/i686/openmosix-kernel-2.4.20-openmosix3.i686.rpm
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c) RPMS/i686/openmosix-kernel-smp-2.4.20-openmosix3.i686.rpm
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d) RPMS/athlon/openmosix-kernel-2.4.20-openmosix3.athlon.rpm
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e) RPMS/athlon/openmosix-kernel-smp-2.4.20-openmosix3.athlon.rpm
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f) RPMS/i386/openmosix-kernel-source-2.4.20-openmosix3.i386.rpm
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g) SRPMS/openmosix-kernel-2.4.20-openmosix3.src.rpm
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h) SOURCES/openMosix-2.4.20-3.gz</PRE
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> a) binary kernel package for i386 UP* machines
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b) binary kernel package for i686 UP* machines
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c) binary kernel package for i686 SMP** machines
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d) binary kernel package for athlon UP* machines
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e) binary kernel package for athlon SMP** machines
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f) source kernel package for any x86 machine (basically this is
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useful if you need to have the openMosix kernel headers)
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g) source kernel package (see point 11)
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h) kernel patch file compressed with gzip</PRE
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> The magic spell to obtain all the files back from the .src.rpm file is:
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# rpm2cpio openmosix-kernel-....src.rpm | cpio -di</P
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>Special thanks to Martin H<>y for the help while I was trying to get
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tend to forget things a few minutes after I've accomplished them :)</P
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