On 23/09/08 01:54, Paul W. Frields wrote: > On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 16:58 -0600, Phil Meyer wrote: >> Erik P. Olsen wrote: >>> I need to view the kernel source of fedora 10. Is there a way to do that? >>> >>> >> Same as always: (works for all recent Fedora/RH/Centos/Oracle based distros) >> >> # = root or sudo >> $ = you >> >> 1. # yum install yumutils rpmdevtools (you may also need sparse, and others) >> 1.a $ /usr/bin/rpmdev-setuptree >> 2. # yumdownloader --source kernel >> 3. $ rpm -ihv kernel-<whatever was just downloaded>.rpm >> 4. $ cd ~/rpmbuild/SPECS >> 5. $ rpmbuild -bp kernel.spec (additional dependencies, if any, will be >> listed here) >> 6. $ cd ../BUILD/kernel-2.6.?? >> >> There you are! >> >> Good Luck! > > First, you don't need to be -- and probably *shouldn't* be -- root when > you do anything other than run yum or other admin utilities. Also, keep > in mind that if you're not *running* Rawhide, to get the latest kernel > you need to enable that repo. Might I suggest these alternate steps? > > $ su -c 'yum install yum-utils rpmdevtools' > $ rpmdev-setuptree > $ yumdownloader --enablerepo=rawhide --source kernel > $ rpm -ivh kernel-<blah>.src.rpm > $ su -c 'yum-builddep kernel-<blah>.src.rpm' > $ rpmbuild -bp ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/kernel.spec > $ cd ~/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-* > > Thanks for helping. yumdownloader didn't like the --enablerepo=rawhide, however I did enable it in the repo and then I had no problem retrieving the kernel. -- Erik. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
