kernel source code

[Bill Davidsen]

psmith wrote:
> David wrote:
>> On 3/26/2009 12:47 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>>  
>>> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>>    
>>>> Bill Davidsen wrote:
>>>>      
>>>>> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>>>>        
>>>>>> Bill Davidsen wrote:
>>>>>>           
>>
>>  
>>>>>>> And as a side note, I just pulled a source rpm off rawhide, for 
>>>>>>> kernel
>>>>>>> 2.6.29-rc8-git and it would unpack due to "MD5 errors" in the 
>>>>>>> install.
>>>>>>> Don't know what that's all about,             
>>>>>> Rawhide has switched to using SHA256 instead of MD5 everywhere
>>>>>> including
>>>>>> RPM. Details in the stronger hashes feature at
>>>>>>           
>>
>>  
>>>>>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/11/FeatureList
>>>>>>           
>>
>>  
>>>>> Actually it seems to be signed with a key I don't see, the message is:
>>>>>   kernel-2.6.29-0.258.rc8.git2.fc11.src.rpm: RSA sha1 (MD5) (PGP) md5
>>>>> NOT OK (MISSING KEYS: PGP#d22e77f2)
>>>>>         
>>
>>  
>>>>> I assume it's a key only in the FC11 release, which isn't in older
>>>>> systems. A problem for another day, I'm content now that I understand
>>>>> why it fails.
>>>>>         
>>
>>  
>>>> Yes. Every release has a different key.
>>>>       
>>
>>  
>>> Interesting, though, I got that key off the web site for the alpha, and
>>> it's in my personal keyring, some time when I want to spend a lot of
>>> time on something I probably won't use I'll figure out where that key
>>> needs to be, since I don't have a usable FC11 machine (both installed
>>> the alpha but when I do the upgrade they hang solid).
>>>     
>>
>>  
>>> Not critical, the newer kernel seems to use my display no better than
>>> the old.
>>>     
>>
>>
>> The key does not go in your personal keyring. It goes in rpm's keyring.
>>
>> rpm --import </path_of/name_of_key>
>>
>>   
> why not just download 2.26.29-3.fc10 from koji? i'm pretty sure it has 
> the latest modesetting stuff enabled
> 
> 
Okay, I D/L it, I'll see if it works any better than the kernel.org original.

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