Updating kernel source with yum, How?

Rick Stevens rstevens at vitalstream.com
Fri Oct 15 17:15:52 UTC 2004


Graeme Nichols wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 03:01, Rick Stevens wrote:

[mucho snippage]

> Rick, I went to the url you said to get the source code and I downloaded
> the docs for the 2.6.8-1.521 kernel and installed it as per the
> following;
> [root at barney download]# rpm -ivh kernel-doc-2.6.8-1.521.noarch.rpm
> /etc/security/selinux/file_contexts: No such file or directory
> warning: kernel-doc-2.6.8-1.521.noarch.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key
> ID 4f2a6fd2
> Preparing...                ###########################################
> [100%]
>    1:kernel-doc             ###########################################
> [100%]
> [root at barney download]# rpm -qil kernel-doc-2.6.8-1.521.noarch.rpm
> package kernel-doc-2.6.8-1.521.noarch.rpm is not installed
> [root at barney download]#

When doing RPM queries, do NOT include either the architecture type or
the ".rpm" bit of the filename.  The RPM itself is called
"kernel-doc-2.6.8-1.521"
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