[CentOS] Re: Re: newbie kernel question

[Steven]

There is NO .src.rpm included unless you purchase RHEL4 from Red Hat.

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"Rodrigo Barbosa" <rodrigob at suespammers.org> wrote in message news:20060403014339.GF5253 at suespammers.org...
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> On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 08:54:40PM -0400, Steven wrote:
>> It is not a matter of being hidden, the kernel source is just not included, so the standard methods will not work if you do not 
>> have
>> the source.
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> Oh, you can always recreate the kernel-source package from the .src.rpm.
> Just install it and change the specfile so it builds the kernel-source.
> I do it for every release, because some external modules won't build
> with just kernel-devel installed. Of course, this is not on any
> production machine or server, where I really don't use custom modules.
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