Here is the procedure I use when a source package has to be retrieved manually (note, though I never presume that other users --new or not --should do it this exact way nor that they should already have the knowledge of the reasons). And I wont prescribe any specific methods - this is more generic to any distro, and not even just the kernel).
-determine the binary's running version (typically, but not always, uname -r for the kernel)
-select a trusted download site from the mirror list
-download the source (your script, Chris)
-unpack the file (rpm, bzip, etc)
-optionally verify integrity by mdsum and possibly signature, or diff against kernel.org (for the extra precautions / curious)
-if there are dependencies, grab those (network or disk) noting version. dependencies are reported at build time, or sometimes in the case or rpm install (ala fedora's specific qt and gtk kernel.rpm dependencies)
The above happens to be all done automatically by distro installers and add/remove apps (and some people consider this to be much more straight forward and less error prone, ala dependencies handling). If we have downloaded or copied someone else's src rpm distro discs, we're already set and the above procedure isnt nec.
When updates are needed, some typical distro-neutral ways are to use downloaded patch /diff files or cvs updates. This avoids having downloading the entire tree for each patch (which is typical for kernel rpms).
Now, I've been using this pretty generic procedure for about 6 or 7 years (redhat 6 I think). For you to have found a post that I've made claiming this is difficult -- for me -- as you claim -- will earn your a check for a cool $20 - but if you never once heard (after _reading_ this thread) me state that the manual download procedure poses an 'inconvenience' problem for new users - or is 'inconvenient' for users without network access or the src distros, I will have no room to preach on this thread :-)
Take care Chris!!!!
Chris Adams wrote:
Once upon a time, Ken Johanson <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> said: <a lot of stoopid stuff>
You keep claiming you have to download hundreds of megabytes of SRPMS to get the kernel, which is wrong. You only need to download the specific SRPM you want. Then you complained it is hard to find (which is frankly even stoopider; if you can't match a version you probably don't have any use for the source).
Anyway, to help you find the kernel matching the running kernel, since this is such a difficult task for you, try this script.
************************************************************************ #!/bin/bash
# set this to your favorite mirror top-level Fedora Core directory base=ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core
pkg=kernel ver=`uname -r` if [ "$ver" != "${ver%smp}" ]; then pkg=kernel-smp ver="${ver%smp}" fi srpm=`rpm -q --qf '%{SOURCERPM}' $pkg-$ver`
fver=`rpm -q --qf '%{VERSION}' fedora-release` urls="$fver updates/$fver updates/testing/$fver development"
gotit=0 for url in $urls; do echo "Checking $base/$url/SRPMS/$srpm" wget "$base/$url/SRPMS/$srpm" if [ $? = 0 ]; then gotit=1 break fi echo done if [ $gotit = 0 ]; then echo "Couldn't find matching kernel source" 1>&2 exit 1 fi echo "Kernel source for running kernel is in $srpm" ************************************************************************
