On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 08:09:35AM -0800, Park Lee wrote: > I think that this linux-2.6.9.tar.bz2 file is > identical to the linux kernel source with the same > version form kernel.org, and those patches show the > differences between the kernel source in FC2 and the > kernel source obtained from kernel.org. Am I right? Usually yes. There are some .src.rpms which do not contain the source as provided by the original vendor (be it kernel.org, gnome.org, or whatever else is shipped with FC), but a modified version (ssh comes to mind, due to some issues I can not recall right now), but the kernel package ought to be original.