rpmbuild vs Xconfig

[Kihara Muriithi]

> If you want to rebuild a kernel that is similar to the Fedora kernel, install
> the kernel-source RPM (note: this is not the same as the kernel SRPM)
Hmm, I actually have SRPM. This is intentional since I assumed it
would be more rpmbuild friendly. Was that a general statement or is it
make config specific?
 Thank you
William
and
> build that using "make dep", "make config", "make", etc. Often, it's a good
> idea to start with the kernel config matching your running kernel which you
> can usually find in /boot.
>
> If you want to install a vanilla kernel (from kernel.org), just download and
> build according to the instructions in the README.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
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