From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041020 Galeon/1.3.18 Description of problem: I've read on some mailing lists that the kernel-sourcecode rpm was removed from fc3 "because you can build new kernels from the src.rpm"... Well, that's not the point of the sourcecode rpm -- the sourcecode rpm is there so we can build modules against the kernel source. The src.rpm has NONE of the patches applied, and doesn't install to /usr/src/linux. Now, it seems that it might be possible to `rpmbuild --rebuild` the src.rpm and get it to produce a sourcecode rpm, but there is no i386 option, and x86_64 doesn't seem to build on my dev box (to then be ported over to some itaniums that we're testing kernel modules on). So even the "you can build new kernels from the src.rpm" argument is wrong since I obviously can't just build new kernels, I can only build for my current architecture (i686 -- which redhat has typically ignored in favor of putting "-march pentium4" under i386, but that's a whole other issue). Please fix this. It's a broken policy. There should be no need to force people to wait for an entire kernel to compile just to get at the kernel-sourcecode rpm. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
found the fix listed in http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/os/RELEASE-NOTES-en.html
Ok. I think the fix will be to change to SUSE Linux. They seem to be more userfriendly. Additionally, the installation of WLAN and ISDN is more easy with SUSE Linux.
Sorry, but the explanation in the Release Notes is wrong -- doesn't work as described. Please re-look at it to make it clear. What is the "architecture,' and how about an example. The file do not get put in /usr/src/redhat. Etc., etc. Please clean it up.
I was really starting to like Fedora Core 3 until I ran into this kernel-source train wreck. Great job guys, you went and made something so simple that I didn't have to ever look at it into something complicated enough to be annoying; simply because it was "redundant". Not that you care, but I hate this new policy of annoying the users.