On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 13:45:35 -0400, John BORIS <jboris@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I installed Fedora 8 and the Apache Server but forgot to install the > Apache Source files. I need to install them. Is there a how to for this. > I did a yum install httpd-devel but that didn't install what I needed. > It should have created a directory /etc/httpd/build but it didn't. Any > pointers would be appreciated. devel packages using provide things (such as header files) used to build (compile) things that will link to the base package's application or library. You want the source rpm if you want to build using what Fedora uses. This will include a base tarball and any Fedora specific patches. You can use rpmbuild to build rpms which you can then install. For just adding a patch or two, this may be the best way to go. If you want to track upsteam source, then you should probably use upstream's build process (and get detailed installations instructions there).
