Can anyone enlighten me as to what this is supposed to mean?
In order to eliminate the redundancy inherent in providing a separate package for the kernel source code when that source code already exists in the kernel's .src.rpm file, Fedora Core 3 no longer includes the kernel-source package. Users that require access to the kernel sources can find them in the kernel .src.rpm file. To create an exploded source tree from this file, perform the following steps (note that <version> refers to the version specification for your currently-running kernel):
1. Obtain the kernel-<version>.src.rpm file from one of the following sources:
DONE
2. Install kernel-<version>.src.rpm (given the default RPM configuration, the files this package contains will be written to /usr/src/redhat/)
Presumably rpm -i ....src.rpm - DONE
3. Change directory to /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/, and issue the following command:
rpmbuild -bp --target=<arch> kernel.spec
(Where <arch> is the desired target architecture.)
DONE
On a default RPM configuration, the kernel tree will be located in /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/.
4. In resulting tree, the configurations for the specific kernels shipped in Fedora Core 3 are in the /configs/ directory. For example, the i686 SMP configuration file is named /configs/kernel-<version>-i686-smp.config. Issue the following command to place the desired configuration file in the proper place for building:
cp <desired-file> ./.config
Errr- where are you supposed to be when you do this (cadidates are in this case /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.10/linux-2.6.10/configs or /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/)
5. Issue the following command:
make oldconfig
Errr - where are you supposed to be in this case? presumably where there is the top level makefile is?
And where are the sources supposed to end up? the directory /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.10/linux-2.6.10 doesn't seem very general... I guess it is appropriate to copy this to /usr/src?
I did have one minor complaint about the behaviour of yum and kernel-sourcecode before and that was that yum insisted in deleting sourcecodes from other kernel versions making it a pain to upgrade gently. Still it was easier than this...
Thanks,
SA
From: "not disclosed" <n0td1scl0s3d@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: Development discussions related to Fedora Core <fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: kernel source code
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 10:42:54 +0000
What exactly is the problem with including kernel-sourcecode?
It makes it easy to take someone else's driver and compile it against your source, it makes it easy to nobble the source and recompile - I have spent the last hour trying to install the source from
the src rpm following the instructions in http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc3/x86/
and I still don't have the source code so I still can't compile my drivers. I can't be arsed to repeat
this 20 times when I shift from fc2 in my lab - with the kernel-sourcecode package I would "yum install kernel-sourcecode" and be done.
Removing the kernel-sourcecode is a retrograde step that goes against the principle of packaging
stuff up - you are forcing the end user to learn a lot of largely useless, arbitrary code rubbish in order to achieve their task. The annoying thing is that it doesn't seem to be saving anyone anything. The idea that it causes harm by duplicating things that are available in the source is daft - if you followed this to its conclusion then you would stop distributingmost binaries.
SA
From: Warren Togami <wtogami@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: Development discussions related to Fedora Core <fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: Development discussions related to Fedora Core <fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: kernel source code
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 00:31:23 -1000
not disclosed wrote:
We need it for building drivers which aren't included in the fedora distros - not everything in the world is rpm based. We also need it to customize the kernels.
Did you miss the part about NOT NEEDING kernel source in order to build modules against that kernel? FC2 and FC3 kernel provides headers that are sufficient 99% of the time, while FC4 split that out into kernel-devel which serves a similar purpose.
If you look at the 3rd party kernel module packages like nvidia or vmware, they build against these headers.
Warren Togami wtogami@xxxxxxxxxx
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