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

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Wed Jun 15 13:33:18 UTC 2005


Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> I also think it's a bug in the release notes, but for a different reason.
>>
>> up2date --get-source should retrieve the SRPM for the named package. 
>> Since the named package is "kernel" and not "kernel-source", it's 
>> nothing to do with the naming convention change since FC2 (i.e. no 
>> more kernel-source package). The problem now is, I think, that up2date 
>> uses the same repos as yum, and yum repos don't contain any SRPMs. So 
>> up2date  --get-source isn't going to work with yum repos.
>>
>> Paul.
>>
> If you find bugs in the release notes, 
> http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc4/errata/  provides a 
> prefilled template http://tinyurl.com/al5g4 for filing them.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=160485

Paul.




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