On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 19:17, Lloyd D Budd wrote:

...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...

Umm, I guess so, but that's not what you want to do. That tarball will not contain any Mandrake-specific modifications. It is pristine. If you want kernel modules you build yourself to insert into the Mandrake kernel, you'll need to build them against the Mandrakized kernel source. Just install the kernel-source RPM and Bob's your uncle. It will drop into /usr/src/linux. Austin -- Austin Acton Synthetic Organic Chemist, Teaching Assistant, Ph.D. Candidate Department of Chemistry, York University, Toronto MandrakeLinux Volunteer Developer, homepage: www.groundstate.ca -- 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