On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 02:48:16AM -0500, Ralph E. Kenyon, Jr. wrote: > I just installed kernel-2.4.20-37.9.legacy.src.rpm. > > I wondered why this was not called kernel-source-2.4.20-37.9.legacy.rpm > like it's predecessors, but I installed it anyway. > Now rpm does not know it was installed. [snip output] > Was the package incorrectly named? Is that what is causing the problem? > Why doesn't rpm know what package the file belongs to? You have installed a source RPM, which, contrary to your expectation is not the same as the kernel-source RPM which is effectively a binary RPM (in that binary RPMs are registered in the RPM database). Source RPMs are not registered in the rpm database; they consist of original source files, patches and spec files required to rebuild RPMs. However, the kernel-source RPM which is available as usual at http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/9/updates/i386/kernel-source-2.4.20-37.9.legacy.i386.rpm can be installed to allow building of extra kernel modules against that kernel version. I hope that clarifies things. The kernel is a special case - the kernel-source package would perhaps be better named the kernel-dev package, in the same way that many library packages have -dev equivalents with header files. Cheers, Dominic. -- fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
