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[ILUG] Fedora Core 5 Kernel Source Package

[ILUG] Fedora Core 5 Kernel Source Package

Kenn Humborg kenn at bluetree.ie
Tue Mar 21 12:33:43 GMT 2006


> I love answering my own questions....
> It would appear that redhat have, in their wisdom, changed the way these
> are delivered to ensure that it's harder than it needs to be.
> The kernel-devel-xyz package needs to be installed, but this install the
> source to /usr/src/kernels/2.6.xyz.
> 
> Hooray for changing what was fine in the first place...

I think they did it to save 40MB+ on the CDs.  The kernel sources used
to be duplicated in both the SRPM and the kernel-source package.
Now they're just in one place.

Later,
Kenn




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