[CentOS-devel] kernel-sourcecode RPM?

Charlie Brady charlieb-centos-devel at budge.apana.org.au
Tue Nov 22 11:37:03 UTC 2005


On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Karanbir Singh wrote:

> Charlie Brady wrote:
>> 
>> I notice that CentOS 4.2 has no kernel-sourcecode RPM, unlike 4.0 and 
>> 4.1. Is that intentional or an oversight?
>
> if you need to rebuild a kernel - use the kernel-*.src.rpm instead - if you 
> just need headers and module building ability, use the kernel-devel-*.rpm

I don't want to do either. I want to build some modules which aren't 
included in the standard kernel. I'd like to get the source for them from 
the kernel-sourcecode RPM, as I've done in the past. But I can manage 
without if I have to.



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