Re: [suse-sparc] SuSE Kernel Source

From: Ed Coates (ewcoate@nighthawk.dyndns.org)
Date: Mon Jan 14 2002 - 01:08:25 PST

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    Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 03:08:25 -0600 (CST)
From: Ed Coates <ewcoate@nighthawk.dyndns.org>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.40.0201140302260.29754-100000@nighthawk.Shadowland.net>
Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] SuSE Kernel Source

    On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:

    I grabbed it from your website. I don't have access to the Sparc CD5 at
    this time, so I grabbed it from
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/7.3/suse/zq1/kernel-source.spm

    I thought that it would be the same. Guess not.

    > >From where do you have the RPM? Not from our CDs:
    >
    > rpm -qlp CD5/full-names/src/kernel-source-2.4.14.SuSE-4.src.rpm
    > GFS-patches-2.4.5.tar.gz
    > defconfig.tar.bz2
    > kernel-source.spec
    > linux-2.4.14.tar.bz2
    > patches.ia64.tar.bz2
    > patches.tar.bz2
    >
    > There is nothing with 2.4.10.
    >
    > > Furthermore, why does the package list linux-2.4.10.tar.bz2, when in
    > > fact, if you install it, it doesn't, and you have to go to
    > > ftp.kernel.org and get it?
    >
    > The source RPM only includes the patches, the full patched kernel tree
    > is in CD2/full-names/sparc/kernel-source-2.4.14.SuSE-4.sparc.rpm
    >
    > To recompile the kernel, you only need this RPM. The source with
    > patches is only, if you wish to apply our patches to a newer kernel.
    >
    > Thorsten

    Thanks for the information. I'll continue my search on CD2 then for a
    2.4.x kernel that I can compile and run on my Sparcstation 2 sunc
    architecture.

    Ed 

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