Need real beginners kernel exploration advice !?

[Tod Merley]

On Dec 23, 2007 7:33 AM, Todd Zullinger <tmz at pobox.com> wrote:
> William Case wrote:

> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/source/SRPMS/
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/8/SRPMS/
>
> Of course, it's often easier to use yumdownloader from the yum-utils
> package to download a srpm.  There is a --source option in
> yumdownloader that should get you the latest srpm of a given package.
>
> > The howtoforge.com site only makes reference to the FC5 and FC6 kernel
> > srpms.  I have googled and found no Fedora 8 source repository.
>
> Your google-fu is weak then. ;)
>
> > Should I get my source (tree?) from the kernel developers (kernel.org)
> > or does Fedora have a source source?  If so where is it? I would like to
> > start with a source copy of what my system is already using.
>
> The Fedora release notes have a section on the kernel and they point
> you to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/CustomKernel for info on how
> to build a custom kernel.  This includes how to download the kernel
> srpm and expand it into a full source tree that you can poke around
> in.
>
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Hi Todd!

You are Google-Fu Master!

Regards!

Tod