Re: Getting documenation from kernel sources / source rpm

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan infradead org>]

On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 15:17 -0500, nathan r. hruby wrote:
> Howdy!
> 
> So I just had a user who got bit by the new way kernel is packaged for
> RHEL4 (eg: no more kernel-source).
> 
> Oddly, he understands why it was done, but is pissed because he really
> just wanted to read bonding.txt and since Satellite doesn't sync SRPM's
> he's got to hunt for the RPM before doing a bunch of other stuff. 


eh did he try the kernel-doc rpms ???

> So, my current thinking is bugzilla'ing an RFE for additional
> kernel-documentation package which just has the contents of the kernel's
> Documentation directory and sticks it in /usr/share/doc/kernel-$version.
> This seems like a trivial .specfile change, though I've never looked at
> redhat's spec for the kernel :)

well... no need for an RFE since it's already there ;)