Re: How to apply kernel source updates.

Thanks Michael, that did the trick.

I didn't understand the difference between the two types of rpm and somehow missed the 
updated "source" one in my search.

James.

BTW:  What is the purpose of the "src" rpms?  Are they for developers to update their 
modified source trees?


8/04/03 2:03:36, [email protected] wrote:

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>On Monday 07 April 2003 03:24 am, James Stanhope wrote:
>> Greetings folks.
>>
>> Can anyone tell me how to apply Red Hat's source update RPM's to the
>> original 7.2 kernel source tree?  (I hope this is not a dumb question,
>> but I have spent many hours trying to find a set of instructions/hints
>> on the RH site and through Google without any success.)  I don't
>> actually want to recompile the whole kernel, just a driver module which
>> I need.
>>
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>You want to install the kernel-source-${version}.i386.rpm package that 
>matches your running kernel, not the kernel-${version}.src.rpm
>
>The kernel files wil be installed in /usr/src/linux-${version}. You should 
>then be able to build the driver.
 >Hope that helps,
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