[PlanetCCRMA] Re: custom kernel compilation problems

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 11:12, Artem Baguinski wrote:
> Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 14:52, William M. Quarles wrote:
> >> Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> >> > On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 21:14, William M. Quarles wrote:
> > I have not used kernel-source for this purpose ever so I can't really
> > comment, but from what I have read, in practice it does not work very
> > well. 
> >
> > If you want a patched kernel source tree that corresponds to the kernel
> > rpm, you should download the kernel-xxx.src.rpm, install it (rpm -Uvh
> > kernel-xxx.src.rpm), 
> 
> are the first two steps what happens when I issue:
> 
> apt-get source kernel-xxx
> 
> ? long ago I was using debian and that's the way I was getting sources
> for from .deb repositories. i tried it on a couple of .rpm's and it
> works but may be kernel sources are different? [i doubt, but need
> reassurance ;-)]

Should work if you have the url in the sources.list file, I have not
tried in a long time. Or you can go directly to:

http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/mirror/all/linux/SRPMS/

-- Fernando