Where is the kernel source package for FC5 GA?

[Rahul Sundaram]

On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 19:25 -0500, Neil Cherry wrote:
> Lamont R. Peterson wrote:
> > On Tuesday 28 March 2006 04:27pm, Neil Cherry wrote:
> >> Allyn, Mark A wrote:
> >>> Hello:
> >>>
> >>> I am trying to build kernel modules on a standard install
> >>> of Fedora Core 5 GA. I did select the development block
> >>> of packages.
> >>>
> >>> However there do not seem to be any kernel sources available
> >>> to build kernel modules.
> >>>
> >>> I tried yum and did a yum look for kernel-source and it came
> >>> up with nothing.
> >>>
> >>> Where do I get enough of the kernel source to do compiles
> >>> of kernel driver modules?
> >> I think it's called kernel-devel.xxxx Try:
> >>
> >> yum search kernel-devel
> > 
> > Yup.  It is kernel-devel.
> > 
> > If you want to build modules (i.e. external modules) for Red Hat distros, 
> > install kernel-devel.  If you want to build patched, custom kernels, get the 
> > SRPM.
> > 
> 
> Ah, so that's the difference. That was driving me totally nuts. I
> couldn't figure out why I couldn't compile the kernel with the
> devel package but I'm very successful (when I don't remove too
> much) with the kernel sources.

We have all this information in the release notes which we spend many
many hours writing. So you might as well as read it.
http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc5/#sn-Kernel

Rahul