I have basically made a custom kernel on CentOS 6 using source from kernel.org.
This modified kernel works fine. However, now I want to create an rpm for this kernel.
I used make rpm option in kernel source tree. However, if I try to install this on another machine I hit a lot of conflicts with kernel-firmware package.
rpm -ivh /media/sf_VMShare/kernel-3.10.19-17.x86_64.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
file /lib/firmware/3com/typhoon.bin from install of kernel-3.10.19-17.x86_64 conflicts with file from package kernel-firmware-2.6.32-431.el6.noarch
file /lib/firmware/acenic/tg1.bin from install of kernel-3.10.19-17.x86_64 conflicts with file from package kernel-firmware-2.6.32-431.el6.noarch
file /lib/firmware/acenic/tg2.bin from install of kernel-3.10.19-17.x86_64 conflicts with file from package kernel-firmware-2.6.32-431.el6.noarch
file /lib/firmware/adaptec/starfire_rx.bin from install of kernel-3.10.19-17.x86_64 conflicts with file from package kernel-firmware-2.6.32-431.el6.noarch
file /lib/firmware/adaptec/starfire_tx.bin from install of kernel-3.10.19-17.x86_64 conflicts with file from package kernel-firmware-2.6.32-431.el6.noarch
It seems almost everything in /lib/firmware conflicts. I have trimmed the output down. What is a possible solution for this? I tried installing the matching kernel-firmware package from the machine where this rpm is being made. But that doesn't help.
