Continued kernel updates for F14?

[Richard Shaw]

On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 9:57 AM, stan <gryt2 at q.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:31:36 +0200
> suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 5:01 AM, stan <gryt2 at q.com> wrote:
>> > as user, rpm -ivh the src.rpm package (you will have to get this
>> > manually from a repository)
>> >
>>
>> $ yumdownloader --source <package>
>>
> That's true if you are getting the package for the currently running
> system, and it is how I get src.rpm packages on F15.  But doing that on
> F14 will not get an F15 package.  The OP is running F14 and wants newer
> kernels.  I didn't, however, check whether yumdownloader has an option
> like yum to set other repositories while dowloading.  There could be,
> and in that case your suggestion will work with a little tweaking.

$ yumdownloader --releasever=15 --source <package>

:)

Richard