On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 04:38, Jonathan Berry wrote: > I don't think I can help with the usb problems, but as far as the kernel source. > > $ yum list kernel-sourcecode > > Name Arch Version Repo > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > kernel-sourcecode noarch 2.6.8-1.521 > fedora-us-2-updates > > Why there is a kernel-source and kernel-sourcecode, I have no idea. It's a historical thing. kernel-source RPMs always used to be .i386.rpm instead of the more logical .noarch.rpm. Most of the update managing software like yum and up2date will not update to a new version of an RPM with a different architecture, so in order to make the change to .noarch.rpm it was necessary to use a different package name, kernel-sourcecode, and have that package obsolete the old package, kernel-source. The change is only going to be short-lived of course because FC3 will supply only the .src.rpm and not bother with the "binary" source code package at all. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
