FLAME____ Why is the kernel source not included

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 15 October 2004 11:41, Fritz Whittington wrote:
>On or about 2004-10-15 10:17, John Hodrien whipped out a trusty #2
>
>pencil and scribbled:
>> On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Tom Yates wrote:
>>> On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, Ken Johanson wrote:
>>>> But since it didnt detect my DGE-530 NIC, and the drivers that
>>>> Dlink kindly provides need to be compiled, I'm SCREWED by the
>>>> politics because a bunch of headers and fundamantal-to-any-Linux
>>>> kernel source is not installed. Thats right, the most
>>>> rudimentary component of the system besides the kernel itslef,
>>>> not placed in
>>>> /usr/src/linux. Flame*Nuclear.
>>>
>>> i'm sorry if this is a really dim question, but in what sense is
>>> the kernel source not available?  i have the kernel-source
>>> package installed, and it's stuck about a quarter of a gig of
>>> files under /usr/src/linux-2.6.5-1.358. they look a lot like the
>>> source of such kernels as i've built recently.
>>>
>>> am i completely missing some important point?  is this not the
>>> kernel source?
>>
>> No, AFAIK you're missing nothing.  The kernel source is provided,
>> and he's
>> just having a big rant about nothing.
>>
>> Dim questions are usually the ones that are worth asking...
>>
>> jh
>
>The OP never did mention which version of Fedora he was talking
> about, or how he got it.
>
>However, I just installed FC 3 test 3, checked the "everything" box,
> and there are no kernel sources I can find.  Up2date offered a new
> kernel, but did not offer kernel sources.  So I dunno, but of
> course it *is* a test version.
>
Humm, I just checked the dvd of FC3T3 I burnt yesterday, and the 
original squawker is correct, there are no kernel srcs on the dvd.
I build mine from kernel.org anyway, but whats the deal?  Speak up 
redhat!

>My FC2 is dual-booted on this machine, and I'm sure it has kernel
>sources, but I'm not sure whether they installed with "everything"
> or if I picked them up later with apt.
>
>In either case, it *might* be that the OP has a valid point, perhaps
>someone should check.  Does just checking "software development" or
>whatever boxes on installation install the kernel source?  Having it
>available by yum or apt is a catch-22 if you need them to get your
> NIC working....

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