Latest kernel src??

[Mariano Draghi]

Søren Neigaard wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 20:03, Mariano Draghi wrote:
>>You don't need the kernel sources for building most kernel modules.
>>Please, read the release notes.
>>Also, please search the list archives for further comments/details on 
>>the issue. This pops up every single day here!
> 
> Well... I do need the source

No, you don't.

 > the NVidia script asks for the source. So
> yes I need it, and yes others have asked about NVidia before, but Im not
> asking about NVidia, Im asking about the kernel source...

Yes, I know what you are asking for. And you don't need the sources. You 
need the headers.

> 
> I have before installed the NVidia driver, which is pretty easy if you
> have the kernel source, but I have some problems getting the latest
> source. Can (will) you help here, or am I on my own?

As I said, please, read the *FC3* Release Notes, and search the archives!
As a proof of concept ;) , I'm pasting the reply to the very same issue 
that someone else gave out earlier today:

> Ricardo Veguilla wrote:
>> 
>> 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,

-- 
Mariano