[ewg] Question: RH4.5 inclusion in ofed-1.2

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

> Quoting Doug Ledford <dledford at redhat.com>:
> Subject: Re: [ewg] Question: RH4.5 inclusion in ofed-1.2
> 
> On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 19:25 +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > > what we really need is tarballs with source + .config files
> > > > for all arches.
> > > 
> > > We don't make those.  We make the src.rpm, which can be installed and
> > > then you can run rpmbuild --bp kernel-2.6.spec to make the source tree
> > > on any arch you are interested in.  The rpmbuild --bp process spits out
> > > the source tree (in /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.9 IIRC, unless you
> > > specify somewhere else either on the command line to rpmbuild or in your
> > > ~/.rpmmacros file) plus the configs for the arch you ran it on.
> > 
> > So I hoped you can do all this for us and upload the tarballs
> > we can stick in our cross-build environment. Would that be possible?
> 
> I could only do x86/x86_64, no ppc/ppc64/ia64.  However, why not just
> install the kernel-devel rpms and build against that?  That's what they
> are there for.

I haven't tried doing this on Ubuntu.
Can one do this as a regular user?
Can one install the ppc RPMs on an i386 box?

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