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On Wednesday 22 September 2004 13:33, Mark Bradbury wrote:
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 22:22:55 +1000, Rodd Clarkson rodd@clarkson.id.au
wrote:
I'm just wondering what happened to the kernel-sourcecode RPMs.
I know that the source code can be found in the kernel-SRPMS package, but I really appreciated having a package to installed the source code where it was expected to be (/usr/src/kernel) and am a little lost as to why the package seems to have been removed.
Rodd
I'm with you, I think its stupid not to have the source patched to the current kernel on hand. I used it all the time to find bugs. I hope that common sense will prevail and the kernel-source rpm returns
There is now a SRPM for the kernel sources, eg,
http://ftp.belnet.be/linux/fedora/linux/core/development/i386/SRPMS/kernel-2...
However, I tried to patch the kernel using this and retired baffled from the field. I ended up having to patch a vanilla 2.6.8 kernel from kernel.org :-( I used to be able to patch the redhat sources just fine by hand from a kernel-source RPM, so I also agree things have gone backwards. I suggested before someone knock up a howto or some document describing the new system and how to emulate the old behaviours but AFAIK it is not in existence.
- -Andy
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