Proposal for Kernel Source distribution

[Jeff Vian]

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.