fedora core 4: can't get kernel source (x86_64) with up2date

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at redhat.com
Wed Jun 15 13:13:53 UTC 2005


Hi

>
> I also think it's a bug in the release notes, but for a different reason.
>
> up2date --get-source should retrieve the SRPM for the named package. 
> Since the named package is "kernel" and not "kernel-source", it's 
> nothing to do with the naming convention change since FC2 (i.e. no 
> more kernel-source package). The problem now is, I think, that up2date 
> uses the same repos as yum, and yum repos don't contain any SRPMs. So 
> up2date  --get-source isn't going to work with yum repos.
>
> Paul.
>
If you find bugs in the release notes, 
http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc4/errata/  provides a 
prefilled template http://tinyurl.com/al5g4 for filing them.

regards
Rahul






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