usability [was Re: [ILUG] To ubuntu or not to ubuntu]

[Darragh Bailey]

On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 02:02:09PM +0000, Brendan Kehoe wrote:
> 
> > Sorry, for the kernel source you should do :
> >
> > # up2date -f kernel kernel-devel
> >
> > or
> >
> > # up2date -f kernel-smp kernel-smp-devel
> >
> > (always get both at the same time, just in case there is a new one)
> >   
> 
> You'd think...I did kernel-devel first, but that didn't actually give me
> all of the headers and such.
> 
> What I ended up having to do were these steps as suggested by RedHat's
> docs at http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_85_5109.shtm ...
> 
>     up2date redhat-rpm-config rpm-build
>     up2date --get-source kernel
>     rpm -ivh /var/spool/up2date/kernel*.src.rpm
>     cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
>     rpmbuild -bp --target=i686 kernel-2.6.spec
>     cd /usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-42.0.8.EL-smp-i686
>     cp configs/kernel-2.6.9-i686-smp.config ./.config
>     make oldconfig
>     cp -a /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.9/linux-2.6.9 /usr/src
>     ln -s /usr/src/linux-2.6.9 /usr/src/linux
> 
> B

That sounds like the software you were building is broken. The
kernel-devel package usually does not contain all the headers, but 
it should contain all the headers for the functionality built into 
the corresponding kernel.

-- 
Darragh

"Nothing is foolproof to a sufficently talented fool."