Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1377 mails)

[grimmer@xxxxxxx (Lenz Grimmer)]

Hello Howard,

On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Howard Arons wrote:

> Question: can I copy the linux.rpm source from the SuSE CD to say,
> /opt/src (I have plenty of room on my /opt partition), and then unpack 
> the rpm file as if it were a tar.zip file? I assume that 'man rpm' will 
> tell me how to unpack the rpm file into a different directory.

I think, this is possible, but there's a better solution. Read on.

> Or must I make /usr/src/linux a symlink to, say, /opt/src/linux, then
> just tell YaST to install the kernel source from the SuSE CD?

Yes, that should be the easiest way to do it. YaST (or better: RPM) will
follow the symbolic link and install the sources there. Please make sure,
that you use the right name for the symlink, have a look at the content of
the RPM. I believe the directory is called linux-2.0.33-suse and linux is
just a link to this directory.

> I've read the kernel-HOWTO, and followed the kernel threads here, but 
> I'm still not sure how to go about this.

Hmm, I doubt, that you will find this kind of information in there. This
should be explained in the DOS-to-Linux- or DOS-Win-to-Linux-HOWTO.

        LenZ

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