
I'm running a 2.6 kernel on my desktop (Red Hat 9) machine, with a RPM from Arjan van de Ven at http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.5/RPMS.kernel/. I want to take the standard RH kernel (which I try and keep to as much as possible) and patch it for a couple of things, and then build an RPM which is as close to the original version as possible, with just the added extra features. When I unpack the SRPM of the kernel source, I get a /usr/src/linux-2.6.1-whatever directory, and I can run 'make rpm' in that directory after configuration. However, this gives me an RPM that doesn't insert itself in grub.conf and doesn't build an initrd. I assume there is a similar method to Debian's make-kpkg that will build me an all in one RPM, and I just can't find it. I expect one of our local Red Hat gurus (orj?) has battled this before, and I'd love to know what other people do in this situation. Thanks, Craig