On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Robert G. Brown wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > > moment. The real question, Doug, is why doesn't RH provide "make
> > > install"-ready kernel sources in /usr/src/linux, installed by default,
> > > in the 5.2 installation? To quote from the GPL:
> >
> > It does.
>
> I must have missed it. I did a standard follow-the-yellow-brick-road
> install, and I could have sworn that all there was in my
> /usr/src/linux-2.0.36-0.7 was an include directory. Yup, that's all
> that's there even now. Now I know a fair amount about linux and know
> how to find kernel sources (or even kernel source RPM's) and how to
> alter them to build a custom kernel or an SMP kernel but your typical
> new user has no idea how to go about doing these things. When I say "by
> default" I mean "without a user having to do anything or even
> necessarily knowing that he/she made a choice".
You need to install the kernel-source RPM. The kernel source-RPM is a
different thing. (It does make sense if you squint at it for a while.)
> > The source rpm includes the base package as distributed by Linus, the PCMCIA
> > add ons, the various RH applied patches each seperated so you can if you wish
> > just apply a few, the and instructions for building it as is used.
>
> Good. Now could you arrange for the kernel source RPM to be installed
> by default when one does a standard installation? Or at least have a
> question pop up like "install kernel sources (recommended)?" in the
> standard install scripts? Maybe there was one and I missed it, but I
> installed two or three times and don't >>think<< that I missed it.
Why should it be recommended? Installing that RPM is one of the easiest
parts of building up a custom kernel.
The argument against RedHat seems to have been watered down from "the
kernel they ship doesn't do SMP so I feel cheated" to "I disagree with the
decision not to install the kernel sources as default". Take it to
redhat-devel, please.
Matthew.
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