what's happened to the kernel-sourcecode RPM.

[Bjorn Andersen]

Hi

How is it possible to build the Nvidia driver agaist the kernel.src?
It fails for mee.

Is the Nvidia driver the only way to test the option "RenderAccel" "on"
funktion in Xorg?

Why is the kernel-sourcecode left out?


/Bjorn


ons, 22 09 2004 kl. 18:56 +0200, skrev Arjan van de Ven:
> On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 18:36, Andy Green wrote:
> > There is now a SRPM for the kernel sources, eg,
> > 
> > http://ftp.belnet.be/linux/fedora/linux/core/development/i386/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.8-1.541.src.rpm
> > 
> > However, I tried to patch the kernel using this and retired baffled from the 
> > field.  I ended up having to patch a vanilla 2.6.8 kernel from 
> > kernel.org :-(  I used to be able to patch the redhat sources just fine by 
> > hand from a kernel-source RPM, so I also agree things have gone backwards.  I 
> > suggested before someone knock up a howto or some document describing the new 
> > system and how to emulate the old behaviours but AFAIK it is not in 
> > existence.
> 
> rpm -i kernel-2.6.8-1.541.src.rpm
> rpmbuild -bp --target noarch /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/kernel-2.6.spec
> 
> and the sourcecode will end up in 
> /usr/src/redhat/BUILD
> 
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