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1. Go into the kernel source directory and issue the following commands to build a kernel rpm.

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   # cd ~/kernel/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-2.6.32-431.5.1.el6/linux-2.6.32-431.5.1.el6.x86_64/ # make oldconfig || make menuconfig # make include/asm # make include/linux/version.h # make SUBDIRS=scripts # make include/linux/utsrelease.h # make rpm   NOTE: with RHEL 7, just do the following # make oldconfig # make -j4 rpm

2. A successful build will return:

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   ... ... Wrote: /home/build/kernel/rpmbuild/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.32lustremaster-1.src.rpm Wrote: /home/build/kernel/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/kernel-2.6.32.lustremaster-1.x86_64.rpm Executing(%clean): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.f73m1V + umask 022 + cd /home/build/kernel/rpmbuild/BUILD + cd kernel-2.6.32lustremaster + rm -rf /home/build/kernel/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/kernel-2.6.32.lustremaster-1.x86_64 + exit 0 rm ../kernel-2.6.32lustremaster.tar.gz

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