Kernel-doc installation -- why not automatic

[Rahul Sundaram]

On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 16:05:00 -0500, David Curry <dsccable at comcast.net> wrote:
> Question for the gurus.
> 
> A recent message on fedora-list prompted me to look for documentation on
> my own system regarding kernel-2.6.10-1.770_FC2.
> I found none.  Scanning the list of rpms available in update
> direcctories of Fedora Core mirror sites, I notice that kernel
> documentation rpms had been made available for the 1.12 and 1.14 kernels
> as well.  Those documentation rpms had not been installed on my system
> either.  Is this expected behavior for updates through the up2date
> utility?  Does yum behave the same way?
> 

yes. its expected behavior and both yum and up2date do the same thing

if kernel rpms and dependant on kernel-doc rpms you will have to
download them both everytime you update the kernel which is a bad idea



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Regards,
Rahul Sundaram