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

Stephen Carville stephen at totalflood.com
Wed Jan 24 23:19:25 UTC 2007


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.

> -- 
> robert
> 


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