[CentOS-devel] kernel-sourcecode RPM?

Phil Schaffner Philip.R.Schaffner at nasa.gov
Tue Nov 22 18:59:00 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 06:37 -0500, Charlie Brady wrote:
> 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.

Have you looked at the centosplus repo "unsupported" kernels?  They
usually have most/all of the additional modules I need.

Phil





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