Where is the FC3 kernel Source?

[Ricardo Veguilla]

On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 20:24 -0600, Sam Williams wrote:
> I have looked everywhere and have been unable to find the location of
> the FC3 kernel source. 

I guess when you said everywhere, you mean everywhere except the FC3
release notes, the fedora mailing lists archives or Google.

The answer to your question: 

>From file:///usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html

> 
> kernel
>                 
> In order to eliminate the redundancy inherent in providing a separate
> package for the kernel source code when that source code already
> exists in the kernel's .src.rpm file, Fedora Core 3 no longer includes
> the kernel-source package. Users that require access to the kernel
> sources can find them in the kernel .src.rpm file. To create an
> exploded source tree from this file, perform the following steps (note
> that <version> refers to the version specification for your currently-
> running kernel):
> 
> 
>      1. Obtain the kernel-<version>.src.rpm file from one of the
>         following sources:
>         
>         
>               * The SRPMS directory on the appropriate "SRPMS" CD iso
>                 image
>                 
>               * The FTP site where you got the kernel package
>                 
>               * By running the following command:
>                 
>                 up2date --get-source kernel
>                 
>      2. Install kernel-<version>.src.rpm (given the default RPM
>         configuration, the files this package contains will be written
>         to /usr/src/redhat/)
>         
>      3. Change directory to /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/, and issue the
>         following command:
>         
>         rpmbuild -bp --target=<arch> kernel.spec
>         
>         (Where <arch> is the desired target architecture.)
>         
>         On a default RPM configuration, the kernel tree will be
>         located in /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/.
>         
>      4. In resulting tree, the configurations for the specific kernels
>         shipped in Fedora Core 3 are in the /configs/ directory. For
>         example, the i686 SMP configuration file is
>         named /configs/kernel-<version>-i686-smp.config. Issue the
>         following command to place the desired configuration file in
>         the proper place for building:
>         
>         cp <desired-file> ./.config
>         
>      5. Issue the following command:
>         
>         make oldconfig
>         
> 
> You can then proceed as usual.
> 
> 
> 
> Note
> An exploded source tree is not required to build kernel modules
> against the currently in-use kernel.
> 
> For example, to build the foo.ko module, create the following file
> (named Makefile) in the directory containing the foo.c file:
> 
> 
> obj-m    := foo.o
> 
> KDIR    := /lib/modules/$(shell uname -r)/build
> PWD    := $(shell pwd)
> 
> default:
>     $(MAKE) -C $(KDIR) SUBDIRS=$(PWD) modules
>               
> 
> Issue the make command to build the foo.ko module.


Regards,
-- 
Ricardo Veguilla <veguilla at hpcf.upr.edu>