On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 12:21:47PM +0100, Jonathan Hunter wrote: > Matthew Miller wrote: > > > Well, the kernel-source package is going away in newer > > versions of Fedora. > > Does anybody know if the package is being replaced by an equivalent? Is the > kernel source provided elsewhere? > > When building Compaq/HP servers, I've found that I need the kernel-source > package in order to compile the hpasm drivers Pieces you need to compile external modules are available, for current Fedora releases, in /lib/modules/<kernel_version>/build/ (you can use simply /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build if this is for the currently running kernel) and "sane" modules, which in particular do not require patching your kernel, do build with that. This is just a part of 'kernel', or 'kernel-smp', packages you likely installed if you do not have some troubles with booting. :-) If every module you may want is "sane" this is a good question. If you really need sources (may happen, but probably not) then after rpm -i kernel<whatever>.src.rpm rpmbuild -bp --arch=noarch /some/path/to/kernel.spec you have a source, with all patches applied, from which that kernel was build. It is highly advisable NOT to do things of that sort from a 'root' account but to define in ~/.rpmmacros your own %_topdir and work there. Do not forget to create required subdirectories; you may copy them from /usr/src/redhat/. Michal -- fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
