Where is the kernel source package for FC5 GA?

[Neil Cherry]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 19:25 -0500, Neil Cherry wrote:
>> Lamont R. Peterson wrote:
>>> On Tuesday 28 March 2006 04:27pm, Neil Cherry wrote:
>>>> Allyn, Mark A wrote:
>>>>> Hello:
>>>>>
>>>>> I am trying to build kernel modules on a standard install
>>>>> of Fedora Core 5 GA. I did select the development block
>>>>> of packages.
>>>>>
>>>>> However there do not seem to be any kernel sources available
>>>>> to build kernel modules.
>>>>>
>>>>> I tried yum and did a yum look for kernel-source and it came
>>>>> up with nothing.
>>>>>
>>>>> Where do I get enough of the kernel source to do compiles
>>>>> of kernel driver modules?
>>>> I think it's called kernel-devel.xxxx Try:
>>>>
>>>> yum search kernel-devel
>>> Yup.  It is kernel-devel.
>>>
>>> If you want to build modules (i.e. external modules) for Red Hat distros, 
>>> install kernel-devel.  If you want to build patched, custom kernels, get the 
>>> SRPM.
>>>
>> Ah, so that's the difference. That was driving me totally nuts. I
>> couldn't figure out why I couldn't compile the kernel with the
>> devel package but I'm very successful (when I don't remove too
>> much) with the kernel sources.
> 
> We have all this information in the release notes which we spend many
> many hours writing. So you might as well as read it.
> http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc5/#sn-Kernel

Thanks Rahul, I only found out about the release notes yesterday
when someone else mentioned them. I now know where they are and
will go visit them as I have a lot of questions. The kernel issue
has plagued me since FC2(? the first 2.6 kernel).

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