what's happened to the kernel-sourcecode RPM.

[Andy Green]

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On Wednesday 22 September 2004 13:33, Mark Bradbury wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 22:22:55 +1000, Rodd Clarkson <rodd at clarkson.id.au> 
wrote:
> > I'm just wondering what happened to the kernel-sourcecode RPMs.
> >
> > I know that the source code can be found in the kernel-SRPMS package,
> > but I really appreciated having a package to installed the source code
> > where it was expected to be (/usr/src/kernel) and am a little lost as to
> > why the package seems to have been removed.
> >
> > Rodd
>
> I'm with you, I think its stupid not to have the source patched to the
> current kernel on hand. I used it all the time to find bugs.
> I hope that common sense will prevail and the kernel-source rpm returns

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.

- -Andy

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