CentOS - Sep 2008 - My turn at building a custom kernel for IPsec BEET mode

Well I am working on building a kernel that will have the IPsec BEET 
mode patch available from infrahip.hiit.fi.

I have some decent help, but really no one there is a seasoned Centos 
kernel builder (though they work with different FC kernels), and now 
they are mostly done for the day.

I have been following the wiki on building a custom kernel, got my patch 
in ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES and away with the rpmbuild.  That failed on line 69:

Unknown tag:  % define buildid .hipl0809111

But the comments say to set the define to something like ".local" or 
".bz123456"

So why the failure?  Too long our are the quotes required?



If this works, I would like to see this patch 'mainstreamed' as it is in
the 2.6.27 kernel....

Hi,

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 16:27, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>
wrote:
> Unknown tag:  % define buildid .hipl0809111
Maybe because there is a space after the "%" and before
"define"? Try
removing that space and see if that works.

If you are still not doing it, I suggest you follow the steps on this document:
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Custom_Kernel

HTH,
Filipe

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>
wrote:
> Well I am working on building a kernel that will have the IPsec BEET mode
> patch available from infrahip.hiit.fi.
>
> I have some decent help, but really no one there is a seasoned Centos
kernel
> builder (though they work with different FC kernels), and now they are
> mostly done for the day.
>
> I have been following the wiki on building a custom kernel, got my patch in
> ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES and away with the rpmbuild.  That failed on line 69:
>
> Unknown tag:  % define buildid .hipl0809111
Make sure there is NO space between % and define.

Akemi
> But the comments say to set the define to something like ".local"
or
> ".bz123456"
>
> So why the failure?  Too long our are the quotes required?
>
> If this works, I would like to see this patch 'mainstreamed' as it
is in the
> 2.6.27 kernel....

Filipe Brandenburger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 16:27, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at
htt-consult.com> wrote:
>   
>> Unknown tag:  % define buildid .hipl0809111
>>     
>
> Maybe because there is a space after the "%" and before
"define"? Try
> removing that space and see if that works.
>   
oops. I wonder how that space snuck in there....
> If you are still not doing it, I suggest you follow the steps on this
document:
> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Custom_Kernel
That is where I got the instructions to uncomment out this line and 
supply the tag....


thanks!