Source for Fedora kernels

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Bill Davidsen wrote:

> Is there somewhere I can find the source used to build the kernel RPMs 
> available when updates occur? Not the naked source and hundreds of patches, 
> but the real source in /usr/src/kernels which seems to be what interesting 
> kernel features want? I really want to try KVM, having decided that xen just 
> isn't working on FC6 with selinux functional.
>
> Trying to guess what patches were applied, in what order, and build source 
> and kernel from scratch is a long painful process I really don't need. 
> Moreover, it appears that the RPM kernl binaries are built with a compiler 
> other than the default gcc4.x or the "compat" gcc3.x.
>
> I assume that the real source is available somewhere.

You still want the SRPM.  I think you want to install it with rpm -ivh, 
then start the build with rpmbuild -bp.  That will apply the patches and 
get you ready for the build step.

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 		Matthew Saltzman

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