On 08/20/2010 05:57 PM, Konstantin Svist wrote: > On 08/19/2010 07:45 PM, jarmo wrote: >> Konstantin Svist kirjoitti torstai, 19. elokuuta 2010 22:58:24: >> >>> And it's not really all that much hassle -- and you get a fully >> working >>> RPM which you can manage with rpm/yum/etc. >> Ok, understand, but what is kernel-PAE- >> devel-2.6.33.6-147.2.4.fc13.i686 for ? >> >> Jarmo > > kernel should be obvious > PAE stands for Physical Address Extension -- it's a trick to allow x86 > architectures access >4GB. If you have x64 capable hardware, x86_64 > version is recommended. > devel means it's a development package - it has all necessary sources to > build the package No, it means it has headers, build scripts, symlinks and other bits needed to build _against_ that package. Most -devel packages are for packages that provide libraries and allow building of applications that link against those libraries. The kernel-devel package is slightly different - it has the bits needed to build kernel modules against that version of the kernel (so for e.g. you can compile 3rd-party kernel modules or different versions of the modules included in the kernel package). The packages that contain all the sources required to build a binary backage are SRPMs (source RPMs). Regards, Bryn. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
