Recompiling kernel src rpm with config changes?

[warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)]

rpm -ivh kernel...src.rpm
edit your config
rpmbuild -ba /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/kernel.spec

-derek

Quoting John Abreau <jabr at blu.org>:

> I'm trying to rebuild a kernel on CentOS 4.3, and I get a bunch
> of errors when I try to use the kernel-devel rpm. Rebuilding
> the source rpm with
>
>    rpmbuild --rebuild kernel-2.6.9-34.0.1.EL.src.rpm
>
> works fine, but that builds it with the default .config.
>
> Is there a way to tell rpmbuild to use a different config file
> when rebuilding the kernel?  Is there any option other than
> building it all manually? The source rpm includes a lot of
> patches, and I basically want to keep everything the same except
> for the specific options I'm changing.
>
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