kernel source for ppc

Robert L Cochran cochranb at speakeasy.net
Mon Mar 21 21:25:16 UTC 2005


Bret Hughes wrote:

>On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 14:32, Chuck R. Anderson wrote:
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>>On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 01:58:40PM -0600, Bret Hughes wrote:
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>>>Since there does not seem to be a kernel-source rpm anymore, is there an
>>>rpm to install the kernel source for ppc?  I installed kernel-devel but
>>>i do not see a configs dir like I am used to so I can start with the
>>>config that is on the running kernel.  has this process changed or are
>>>the test packages just not there yet.
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>>Install the src.rpm instead.  Then look in /usr/src/redhat/*
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>OK, Thanks.  Is this setup a done deal?  If you are wanting to build
>something that relies on the kernel source tree, I assume that a
>rpm-build -p SPECS/kernel-version and 
>ln -s /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-version /usr/src/linux 
>would provide the needed tree?
>
>What a pita.  From reading rpm-qi kernel-devel, the kernel-devel package
>is equiv. to the old kernel-headers?
>
>I an sure there is a reason to do it this way but I am not seeing it
>unless RH is just trying to make it harder for folks to migrate here
>from other distros.
>
>Sorry if this has been hashed out before I did not search the archives
>before going off on this mini rant.
>
>Bret
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I haven't finished downloading CD #1 yet, but you might want to read the 
Release Notes it surely contains. There probably is discussion of how to 
create the kernel source. Actually I think the idea is a good one.

Bob




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