On Sun, 2004-01-25 at 19:58, John V. Pope wrote:
> FC1 Gurus:
>
> I am attempting to install the kernel source on my server as the first step
> toward recompiling a USB driver. When I issue the rpm command, nothing
> happens and the shell prompt returns within a few seconds. No output is
> generated and no files are installed. I have tried this on two different
> FC1 servers with identical results.
>
> Here's my shell session:
> # rpm --checksig kernel-2.4.22-1.2149.nptl.src.rpm
> kernel-2.4.22-1.2149.nptl.src.rpm: (sha1) dsa sha1 md5 gpg OK
> # rpm -i kernel-2.4.22-1.2149.nptl.src.rpm
You are installing the source RPM, i.e. the files needed to build the
binary RPMs. What you probably wanted to do is install the kernel-source
binary RPM (this is a bit confusing ;-). The former is done for building
the kernel, kernel-smp, kernel-source, ... packages, the latter is done
if you want to have /usr/src/linux-2.4.... to build e.g. a 3rd party
module against an already packages kernel.
BTW: Files should be installed still, albeit beneath
/usr/src/redhat/SPECS and .../SOURCES.
Nils
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