Bug 121799
| Summary: | rpm fails to install kernel source from latest RH9 rpm | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Jeff Kuehn <kuehn> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Arjan van de Ven <arjanv> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 9 | CC: | riel |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2004-04-28 14:58:38 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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you want the kernel-source rpm not the .src.rpm |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 Description of problem: In summary, it appears that the latest RH9 kernel source package isn't a kernel source package at all, but rather that the package builder instead built an rpm of a bunch of undocumented kernel patch files. Specifically, the newly released kernel-2.4.20-31.9.src.rpm can be retrieved by up2date, but it does not install a new kernel source tree. Instead, running: rpm -ivh kernel-2.4.20-31.9.src.rpm installs a bunch of patch files (without any documentation) into /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES. This does the user no good. The rhn applet still insists that the system needs to be updated and packages which depend on kernel version (like wlan-ng, etc) can no longer be built from the new kernel source, making the new kernel binary also useless for users who depend on the ability to extend their systems. This requires users to fall back to the previous kernel binary/source (2.4.20-30.9) to restore system function. This kernel (2.4.20-30.9) is known to have security issues. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.4.20-31.9 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.obtain kernel-2.4.20-31.9.src.rpm via up2date 2.rpm -ivh kernel-2.4.20-31.9.src.rpm 3.check /usr/src/linux-2.4/ to see that the source isn't updated. Actual Results: the /usr/src/linux-2.4 source tree is not updated. kernel modules built from the non-updated source tree fail to load producing module/kernel version mismatch messages. This requires one to fall back to the previous kernel binary (2.4.20-30.9) to restore system functionality. Unfortunately, this binary has known security issues. Expected Results: the /usr/src/linux-2.4 source tree should be updated when the rpm is installed. kernel modules built from the non-updated source tree should load successfully with the new kernel. Additional info: the rpm doesn't contain any kernel source other than the undocumented patch files.