Need real beginners kernel exploration advice !?

[Todd Zullinger]

William Case wrote:
> This may be self-induced confusion, but I thought I remembered a Fedora
> source repository from two or three years ago.  
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/source/SRPMS/

The Fedora tree was reorganized when Core and Extras were merged.  The
URLs for the release and update srpms are:

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/source/SRPMS/
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/8/SRPMS/

Of course, it's often easier to use yumdownloader from the yum-utils
package to download a srpm.  There is a --source option in
yumdownloader that should get you the latest srpm of a given package.

> The howtoforge.com site only makes reference to the FC5 and FC6 kernel
> srpms.  I have googled and found no Fedora 8 source repository.

Your google-fu is weak then. ;)

> Should I get my source (tree?) from the kernel developers (kernel.org)
> or does Fedora have a source source?  If so where is it? I would like to
> start with a source copy of what my system is already using.

The Fedora release notes have a section on the kernel and they point
you to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/CustomKernel for info on how
to build a custom kernel.  This includes how to download the kernel
srpm and expand it into a full source tree that you can poke around
in.

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