On Tuesday 01 June 2004 06:52, Preston Crawford wrote:
Why did one of the update sources give me a kernel that thought it was 2.6.5, much less not give me the sources? Isn't that the issue?
Nope. The yast update applies patches to fix security issues, and not necessarily to bring you up to date with all associated packages. Further it is SuSE's LONG STANDING policy to apply the patches to the kernal (or other packages) without changing the version numbers so that dependencies do not crop up and break your system. If you want to upgrade your kernal, (as opposed to simply getting a patch RPM from yast update) you should go to the ftp site and download the latest stable kernels and the source RPMs and install them in paralle so that you always have a source tree that matches the kernal you are running. Not every installation needs source installed. Some packages, (Like VMware) do require the source tree because they custom compile replacements for certain modules, (unless of course it happens to run out of the box and does not need to compile). -- _____________________________________ John Andersen