fedora core 4: can't get kernel source (x86_64) with up2date

[Paul Howarth]

Jim Hayward wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 04:35:39 -0400
> Robert Kerr <rrkrr at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>>although this worked okay with fedora core 3, it fails with core 4:
>>
>>issuing:
>>    [root at localhost ~]# up2date --get-source kernel
> 
> snip... 
> 
>>*****************
>>Anyone know what this means?
> 
> 
> It means you should look at the release notes...
> 
> "Fedora Core 4 does not include the kernel-source package provided by
> older versions. Instead, configured sources are available as described
> in Section 6.2.2.2, ___Kernel Flavors___. Users that require access to
> Fedora Core original kernel sources can find them in the
> kernel .src.rpm package. To create an exploded source tree from this
> file, perform the following steps:"
> 
> http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc4/errata/#sn-kernel

A few lines further down the release notes, it says that one of the ways 
of getting the .src.rpm is:

# up2date --get-source kernel

Paul.