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. > _______________________________________________ When I need to build some kernel modules for a raid controller, that is when I noticed that the modules produced from kernel-sourcecode did not work. They built fine, but didn't function. That is when I started researching the kernel-sourcecode rpm more fully and discovered that the tree is different and things happen inside the code that is arch specific. Fedora and RedHat both no longer produce the kernel-sourcecode package by default. It caused quite a stir on their mailing lists at the time. However, since it is their stance to not build a kernel-source=code and since the source tree produced is different when using kernel-sourcecode, it is better that we do what they do for consistency. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20051122/1bdbc206/attachment-0007.sig>