Re: source vs. sourcecode

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Odd, always assumed that people who built their own kernel would hit
kernel.org up. I always thought that kernel-source package was for
building modules against your kernel such as with ndiswrapper and what
not.

On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 09:08:07 +0200, Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 09:59:04PM -0400, Cristian Gafton wrote:
> > On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> >
> > > > the lastest kernel src package is kernel-sourcecode. Although I can
> > > > understand what the package contains, neither apt or yum knew it was an
> > > > update to kernel-source.
> > >
> > > we tested it with yum and yum upgrade pulls the new thing down.
> > > The reason is that it's now noarch and yum can't do i386->noarch
> > > updates, while with a name change it should work....
> >
> > I think this is a very weak reason for having to inflict this sort of
> > change...
> 
> I agree. Not having updated kernel-source isn't a big deal either, yet
> people who like to build their own kernel entirely complained, and they were
> right. ANd the package is for THEM.
> 
> 
> 
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