i've never tried this before so i thought i'd ask before i totally screwed things up. i want to update a tutorial i wrote about how to build your first kernel module, and part of that requires building the module against the relevant parts of a kernel source tree. in fedora, that would be kernel-devel, but that package normally installs under /usr/src and i wanted to explain how to at least *build* the module without needing root permission. (of course, they'd need root to *load* the module but ignore that for now.) i already have kernel-devel installed *normally* on my system. is there any way a regular user could install the same directory structure under their home directory, then pass that directory name to the module compile step? of course, one could always just extract the rpm contents with rpm2cpio, which wouldn't affect the current yum database. I'm starting to think that's the easiest thing to do here, but i'm willing to be educated. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Linked In: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rpjday Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ======================================================================== _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum