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+# --- ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN ---
+# 
+# This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
+# Please add additional copyright information _after_ the line containing
+# the ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END tag. Otherwise it might get removed by
+# the ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch script. Do not edit this copyright text!
+# 
+# ROCK Linux: rock-src/package/base/linux24-src/linux24-src.conf
+# ROCK Linux is Copyright (C) 1998 - 2003 Clifford Wolf
+# 
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version. A copy of the GNU General Public
+# License can be found at Documentation/COPYING.
+# 
+# Many people helped and are helping developing ROCK Linux. Please
+# have a look at http://www.rocklinux.org/ and the Documentation/TEAM
+# file for details.
+# 
+# --- ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
+
+# include the function to patch and configure the kernel
+. $base/package/base/linux24/lx_config.sh
+
+main_lx_src() {
+	cd $root/usr/src
+
+	echo "Extracting the Linux Kernel Sources [$vanilla_ver] ... "
+	lx_tempdir=`mktemp -d tmp.XXXXXXXXXX`
+
+	# hack to extract the files into our usr/src dir ...
+	# this part is continued inside lx_injectextraversion
+	ln -sf $PWD/${lx_tempdir} $builddir/linux-${vanilla_ver}
+	tar -k $taropt $archdir/$srctar -C $builddir/
+	chown -R 0:0 ${lx_tempdir} ; chmod go=u,go-w ${lx_tempdir}
+
+	echo "Copying kernel patches ... "
+	rm -rf linux$treever-patches ; mkdir -p linux$treever-patches
+	cp -v $base/package/$repository/linux$treever/README linux$treever-patches/
+	cp -v $patchfiles linux$treever-patches/
+
+	cd ${lx_tempdir}
+
+	lx_config
+	# remove debug configs 
+	rm -f .config.[1-9] 
+
+	if [ "$ROCKCFG_PKG_LINUX_CONFIG_STYLE" = none ] ; then
+		# create a valid .config (new settings may be available etc.)
+		yes '' | eval $MAKE oldconfig > /dev/null
+	else
+		cp -v .config_nomods  ../linux$treever-patches/config_nomods.txt
+		cp -v .config_modules ../linux$treever-patches/config_modules.txt
+	fi
+
+	# can fail in stage 0-1 ...
+	if [ $stagelevel -gt 1 ] && [[ $treever = 24* ]] ; then
+		echo "Creating dependencies (e.g. for versioned symbols) ..."
+		eval $MAKE dep-files
+	fi
+
+	echo "Clean up the *.orig and *~ files ... "
+	find -name '*.orig' -o -name '*~' | xargs rm -f
+	rm -f .config.old
+}
+
+autoextract=0 ; createdocs=0
+
+custmain="main_lx_src"
+patchfiles="`echo $base/package/$repository/linux$treever/*.patch` $patchfiles"
+