On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 18:55, Austin wrote:

On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 18:11, Lloyd D Budd wrote:

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I see there is kernel-2.4.22.21mdk-1-1mdk.src.rpm (39303204) kernel-source-2.4.22-21mdk.i586.rpm (42200593)

I wonder about the size difference :-(

You realize that these are not the same thing, right? Having never made an RPM, I had thought I had...

I had thought that kernel.src.rpm would have about the same contents as kernel-source.rpm . I had thought that src.rpm might possibly be a little larger, but not the other way around... Still I should be able to install kernel-2.4.22.21mdk-1-1mdk.src.rpm ? ...err, now I think I understand... the source files end up in /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES , no entry is made in rpm db , and from here I could extract the kernel source tar files or what ever I want to... -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml