Proposal for Kernel Source distribution
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Mon Dec 20 18:20:16 UTC 2004
On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 10:17 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 06:58:52AM -0600, Brian Fahrlander wrote:
> > > One step, actually:
> > > rpm -ivh \
> > > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.9-1.681_FC3.src.rpm
> > AH! So they put it back, aye? Seems like I remember it being that
> > way in the 'way back' like, say, RH 4.1-5.0? That always seemed more
> > straightforward to me. Cool.
>
> Dunno about "put it back" -- it's worked like this forever.
>
True, but there has (almost) always been a binary rpm as well as the
source rpm to install the kernel source.
What was changed is there is not a binary rpm any more. Only the SRPMS
for the kernel source now.
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