On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 01:04:22PM -0800, Mark W. Knecht wrote:
> Ben,
> Thanks. I'm now running 2.2.16-22 from RPM. First accomplishment behind
> me.
>
> Now, my goal was to do a kernel build from source, and I downloaded a
> non-source package (kernel-2.2.16-22.i686.rpm). I couldn't find a SRPM
> of -22, so I downloaded kernel-2.2.16-3.src.rpm. I think Larry said he was
> running this kernel. I'm hoping this really is source for the kernel...
>
> I attempted to run rpm, and it looks like it's running, but I can't find
> the source on my system. (Assuming that it really got written somewhere...)
> There's no directory under /usr/src for 2.2.16-3. I used:
>
> rpm -ivh kernel-2.2.16-3.src.rpm
>
> Where does rpm put this stuff? I'm sure there must be a way to get rpm to
> tell me what it does?
rpm -qpl kernel-2.2.16-3.src.rpm
>
> Off to find my copy of Maximum RPM.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Benjamin
> Reed
> Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2001 11:54 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Win4Lin-users] Help - I don't get rpm...
>
>
> > Larry,
> > A couple of questions. I want to make sure I don't mess my system up. I
> > got out my RH7.0 disks and grabbed kernel.2.2.16-22.i686.rpm, thinking I
> > could install that. When I tried to run rpm I got a message stating that
> > only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of
> rpm.
>
>
> RedHat 7.0 packages are packaged in the newer "RPM 4" format. Get the 3.0.5
> update from the redhat 6.2 updates directory, it has support for version 4
> packages.
>
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