[ewg] Making a new ofed_kernel-1.5.1.tgz for OFED-1.5.1.tgz

[Tom Tucker]

  Hi Vlad,

On 9/12/10 5:34 AM, Vladimir Sokolovsky wrote:
> On 09/08/2010 01:41 AM, Tom Tucker wrote:
>> Hi Vlad,
>>
>> I'm trying to test an update to the kernel in the context of OFED
>> 1.5.1++. I've got
>> everything 'packaged' and working to the point where I need to create an
>> updated ofa_kernel-1.5.1-OFED.1.5.1..src.rpm
>>
>> I can use makedist to create backport .tgz files for plain
>> (ofa_kernel.tgz, ofa_kernel-$backport.tgz), etc... but can't figure out
>> how to build the actual src RPM. I presume this is an RPM built from
>> ofa_kernel.tgz + a twizzled ofed_scripts/ofa_kernel.spec file with
>> @VERSION@ etc... .replaced with 1.5.1, etc...
>>
>> Can you tell me how to do this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tom
>>
>>
>
> Hi Tom,
> You can use OFED-1.5.1/docs/ofed_patch.sh script to add a patch to 
> existing
> ofa_kernel source RPM.
>
Great, that's what I did.
> Alternatively, you may replace @VERSION@ by 1.5.1 and @RELEASE@ by 
> OFED.1.5.1
> (or anything else), tar the directory and run "rpmbuild -ts <tar 
> file>" to
> create the source RPM.
>
Ok, that's fine. I was reluctant to do that because I assumed that there 
was some tool that "did that for you" and that there would be some other 
set of things needed that weren't so obvious.

Thanks!
Tom



> Regards,
> Vladimir