Re: Can't install Linux kernel source

From: -pbh- (perbh_at_email.com)
Date: 06/30/05


Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 05:54:02 GMT

Bernard wrote:
> I'm trying to install the kernel source under Fedora
> Core 4. I receive the following error when attempting
> to install the source via up2date:
>
> antares:/etc/sysconfig/rhn> up2date --get-source kernel
>
> Fetching all package list for channel: fedora-unstable...
> An error has occurred:
> exceptions.TypeError
> See /var/log/up2date for more information
>
>
> I've listed the error in /var/log/up2date below.
> I installed FC4, then ran "yum update", and it
> updated 184 packages. Any ideas why this is
> failing? I also tried the
> "rpmbuild -bp --target=i686 kernel-2.6.spec"
> method to install the kernel, and received
> an error after a couple of minutes. This
> is unbelievable. All I want to do is install
> the kernel source code. BTW, I did install
> kernel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.src.rpm.
>
>
>
>
> Entry from /var/log/up2date:
>
> [Sun Jun 26 20:57:58 2005] up2date allAvailablePackageList from network
> [Sun Jun 26 20:57:58 2005] up2date File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 1265, in ?
> sys.exit(main() or 0)
> File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 711, in main
> return getPackages(pkgNames, source=1)
> File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 995, in getPackages
> progressCallback = wrapperUtils.percent)
> File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhnPackageInfo.py", line 279, in getAllAvailableAllArchPackageList
> package_list = allAvailablePackageList(
> File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhnPackageInfo.py", line 218, in allAvailablePackageList
> progressCallback = progressCallback )
> File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rpcServer.py", line 316, in doCall
> ret = apply(method, args, kwargs)
> File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/repoDirector.py", line 24, in listAllPackages
> return self.handlers[channel['type']].listAllPackages(channel, msgCallback, progressCallback)
> File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rpmSource.py", line 241, in listAllPackages
> msgCallback, progressCallback)
>
I never trusted redhat/fedora kernels anyway - always download kernel
source from kernel.org
-pbh-



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