Proposal for Kernel Source distribution

Rahul Sundaram rahulsundaram at gmail.com
Fri Dec 17 23:45:06 UTC 2004


On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 00:31:10 +0100, joekrahn
<no-reply-gw at fcp.homelinux.org> wrote:
> I agree withe intent of avoiding redundancy by not distributing kernel-source as a seperate package. But, kernel source is often needed, and there are several step to get it installed.
> 
> I propose putting a Makefile in /usr/src that has targets like 'kernel_source' to get and install current kernel sources, 'kernel_build' to make the kernel, and eventually some more complex functions, like updating the new kernel .config based on diffing the previous default and user-modified configs.

file a RFE in bugzilla.redhat.com
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Regards,
Rahul Sundaram




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