RHEL4 has no kernel-source rpm?????

[Ray Van Dolson]

On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 03:19:25PM -0800, Stephen Carville wrote:
> Robert Canary wrote:
> >I donwloaded the strongswan and was attempting build the rpm file from 
> >the bz2 file. rpmbuild -tb strongswan.bz2
> >
> >However, the build is looking for the kernel build files.  I did a scan 
> >for the kernel-source (rpm -qa | egrep"kernel") but is wasn't installed. 
> > I did a "up2date kernel-source" on my RHEL4.1 and dosen't exist.
> >
> >Were dose one get the kernel-source for the RHEL4 kernels if one needs 
> >to recompile it and repackage it?
> 
> There is no kernel source RPM any more.  To build things you need 
> kernel-headers and kernel-devel.
> 

It should be noted that you can build the kernel-source RPM from the kernel
source SRPM still.  I think you need to either modify the .spec file or pass
rpmbuild some options.

Ray