what's happened to the kernel-sourcecode RPM.
Arjan van de Ven
arjanv at redhat.com
Wed Sep 22 16:56:51 UTC 2004
On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 18:36, Andy Green wrote:
> There is now a SRPM for the kernel sources, eg,
>
> http://ftp.belnet.be/linux/fedora/linux/core/development/i386/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.8-1.541.src.rpm
>
> However, I tried to patch the kernel using this and retired baffled from the
> field. I ended up having to patch a vanilla 2.6.8 kernel from
> kernel.org :-( I used to be able to patch the redhat sources just fine by
> hand from a kernel-source RPM, so I also agree things have gone backwards. I
> suggested before someone knock up a howto or some document describing the new
> system and how to emulate the old behaviours but AFAIK it is not in
> existence.
rpm -i kernel-2.6.8-1.541.src.rpm
rpmbuild -bp --target noarch /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/kernel-2.6.spec
and the sourcecode will end up in
/usr/src/redhat/BUILD
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