On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 06:34:06PM +0000, rwhart@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi, > I need to compile the module for my nVidia dualhead. I have tried to rpm -ivh > kernel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.src.rpm repeatedly. It reports no errors. > > However, then I do rpm -qa | grep kernel* and the source is not listed. Also > there is no kernels subdirectory in /usr/src > > I have performed a rpm --rebuildb. Any other ideas? > > Thanks, > > Bob Well the thing to doe is to put the src.rpm in /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES and hen you do: rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.src.rpm I would expect you would get a spec file in: /usr/src/redhat/SPECS Then you would run: rpmbuild --rebuild on the spec file. Or if you want to remove the middleman you could do a: rpmbuild --rebuild kernel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.src.rpm -- ======================================================================= You get along very well with everyone except animals and people. ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
