Kernel-doc installation -- why not automatic

David Curry dsccable at comcast.net
Tue Mar 8 22:52:29 UTC 2005


Rahul Sundaram wrote:

>On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 16:05:00 -0500, David Curry <dsccable at comcast.net> wrote:
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>>Question for the gurus.
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>>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?
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>yes. its expected behavior and both yum and up2date do the same thing
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>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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Thanks, Rahul.




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