No more kernel-source(code) ??? (was: rawhide report: 20040623 changes)

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

Am Fr, den 25.06.2004 schrieb Alexandre Oliva um 8:58:
> On Jun 25, 2004, Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info> wrote:
> 
> > You need it in rare cases -- if you want to build modules from the
> > kernel that were not build by rh/fedora.
> 
> If you're looking for the sources of any modules, go get them from the
> source rpm/tarball where they are provided.  If it's not part of the
> kernel, you unpack the sources and build them.  Why should a module
> that is part of the core kernel, but wasn't enabled, be any different?

Normally a simple 

BuildRequire: kernel-sourcecode

was enough to have all needed Source-Code available. I don't think that
is possible with SRPMS, or? 

If kernel-source is missing I need do add some (AFAICS large) parts of
the kernel-source package to each package im creating myself (e.g. for
an NTFS or DVB-Modules RPM-Package someone might create ;-) ). Thats a
large overhead there.

Therefor I'd like it very much if the kernel-source(code) RPM could stay
in a form like it is today in fedora-extras (or alternatives). 

CU
thl