Getting actual source for a kernel

[Bill Davidsen]

Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 07:24:28PM -0500, Tom Horsley wrote:
>> On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:10:44 -0500
>> Bill Davidsen wrote:
>>
>>> Please read this entire question before giving me the obvious answer...
>> This obvious answer?
>>
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Building_a_custom_kernel
>>
>> If you do just rpmbuild -bp, you'll get a kernel source tree
>> with all the patches applied over in the BUILD subdir.
> 
> By the way, if you find something unclear in that document, please
> bring it to our attention and we'll see about clarifying it.
> 
> 
Thanks, it seems I'm not going to be able to just get the source with rpm2cpio, 
apply the patches, and do the build where I have disk space. I'll do it the hard 
way and actually install the source by unpacking the RPM after I find a machine 
with space where the package wants to unpack. I don't normally leave space in 
/usr/src, since I run kernel.org kernels which I can build in a development space.

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