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

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at redhat.com
Wed Jun 15 13:35:42 UTC 2005


Paul Howarth wrote:

> 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

Ok. thanks Paul
regards
Rahul




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