On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 02:46:22PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 09:04:47AM -0400, Marshall Lewis wrote:
Hate to be a pest, but where are the kernel-sourcecode packages? I tried rawhide, but it doesn't look like it's picked it up yet.. maybe download.fedora.redhat.com, but it's refusing connections at the moement
we're phasing those out in favor of documenting how to use rpmbuild -bp on the .src.rpm; it's a bit silly to ship the same stuff twice really...
Hm, at least in the past these two were not precisely the same although the bulk, clearly, was identical. In ...<arch>.rpm there were various bits-and-pieces build specific - like versioned symbols. A number of external modules have packaging which depend on that and it simple to tell end user "run 'rpmbuild --rebuild <this_package>.src.rpm' and you will end up with modules for your current kernel". It is more complicated in the case of src.rpm and there is no way to check automatically that 'rpmbuild -bp ...' was performed and on what and even if a relevant src.rpm is around. One can querry rpm otherwise. So from POV of an end-user this is not that benign change as it looks in the first glance and we hear all the time "disk space is cheap" when complaining about some bulk monsters. From some postings it looks like that this change will spell serious trouble even for some participants of this list.
OTOH resigning from src.rpm for a kernel is obviously not an option.
Michal