followup to kernel-source issue

[Matthew Miller]

On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 07:58:13PM -0700, Joe Pruett wrote:
> i finally figured out that to get the kernel-source rpm to update with 
> apt-get, you have to:
> rpm -e kernel-source
> apt-get install kernel-source#2.4.20-37.9.legacy
> given that you can actually do kernel upgrades via the RPM::Upgrade-Kernel 
> option, it would certainly be nice to have a way to get the source
> updates automatically as well.  even if it does like the kernel and does 
> an install instead of an upgrade.  i've peeked at the lua scripts and 
> don't see any obvious way to make them get the sources if already 
> installed.  am i just out to lunch here?

Well, the kernel-source package is going away in newer versions of Fedora.
So, I wouldn't worry about it too much. Also, the "rpm -e" step should be
unnecessary....


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