[CentOS] kernel sourcecode ?

David Johnston david at littlebald.com
Wed Oct 19 17:07:29 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 16:43 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> Mário Gamito wrote:
> > Until 4.1, there was a kernel-sourcecode-2.6.9 RPM.
> > Now in there isn't.
> > 
> > So, again, where is the kernel's sourcecode ?
> 
> The kernel-sourcecode pkg is deprecated upstream and dropped down the 
> line, there will be no kernel-sourcecode pkg in CentOS4 anymore.

The upstream vendor's release notes recommend using
"up2date --get-source kernel", so up2date handles the details of finding
the package.

yum has no such option, so the user has to track down the package by
hand.  Could we add a URL for the source code to the CentOS release
notes?

-David



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