Ahmed A wrote:
Hello, I have a FC6 system (with no updates). When I do 'uname -r', I get "2.6.18-1.2798.fc6", the standard kernel that comes with the original FC6. I have been reading and following the instructions in the link "http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386/os/RELEASE-NOTES-en_US.html"; section 8.6, to get the full kernel source to the above kernel. One of the instructions says: yumdownloader -e core-source -e updates-source --source kernel Can someone please tell me what the options - core-source and updates-source do? I have done some googling, read man pages, but to no luck. Any explanation or pointers to web pages that explain these options would be appreciated.
In /etc/yum.repos.d you will find a bunch of repository files. The debug and source repositories are not enabled by default in these repositories. The -e option enables the repositories with the names "core-source" and "updates-source".
Will the option "updates-source" update my kernel version.
It will get the latest source. Rahul
