Kernel rpm

[Kam Leo]

On 5/13/06, Ali Helmy <alihelmy at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 13/05/06, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
>
> >
>  On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 17:34 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote:
>
> I don't understand this.  Not having kernel source seems very strange.  It
> also seems to be incorrect, as:
>
> yumdownloader --enablerepo=updates-source --source kernel
> downloads the kernel SRPM, and I see several kernel SRPMs at
> <http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/5/SRPMS/
> >.
>
> So, if I download and install
> Kernel-2.6.16-1.2111.FC5.src.rpm and I keep it updated, I
> will regularily have an updated version of the kernel source code, right?
>

If you perform the update and installation yourself, i.e. write a cron
script,  the answer is yes; otherwise, no. Yum does not install
kernel.src.rpm files (reference bug
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=191564 ).