i believe the .src.rpm infact contains the kernel sources and would be installed into /usr/src/linux
form where the usual procedures involved in compiliing a custom kernel can be followed.
You believe wrongly. Install the kernel-source RPM and see for yourself that you have stuff in /usr/src/linux-2.4*. There was a huge discussion about this in the archives a while ago. To summarise, the kernel .src.rpm is used to build a large number of packages for different platforms: there are i386, i686 and athlon kernels, boot kernels, SMP kernels and, importantly, a package called "kernel-source". This is a "binary" RPM but contains the files needed to either build drivers against the running kernel or build a custom kernel.
It's always worth testing your assumptions before you pass them on :-) It saves a lot of time in the end.
jch
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