"rpm -Uvh ..." not working as advertised after upgrade to FC5

[Clark Cooper]

I have just recently upgraded from Fedora Core 2 to Fedora Core 5. The FC 2 I was using was itself an upgrade from either FC1 or some redhat version. I suspect my problems are related to having ancient files subtly bollixing things up.

I wanted to take a look at the kernel source and found section 8.6 of the release notes. Step 3 of that section calls for the command:

rpm -Uvh kernel-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5.src.rpm

(It actually gives a version parameterized example.)

Earlier steps explicitly showed using su, so I assumed this should be run in user mode. When I attempted to do this I got the error:

error: cannot write to %sourcedir /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES

The release notes however said:

This command writes the RPM contents into ${HOME}/rpmbuild/SOURCES and ${HOME}/rpmbuild/SPECS, where ${HOME} is your home directory.

Any suggestions on how I should proceed in installing the kernel sources?

As an aside, another reason I wanted to install the kernel sources is to fix the broken symlink from /lib/modules/2.6.15-1.2054_FC5/build to /usr/src/kernels/2.6.15-1.2054_FC5-i686

[dogalmity]

I'm having exactly that problem, except that I did a clean install of FC5, so its not old files mucking up the works.

[blue13130]

Have the package fedora-rpmdevtools installed (get it from yum in the extras repo) and then download your kernel.src.rpm and follow these steps as a user
1. $ fedora-buildrpmtree (this will create the rpmbuild directory tree under your user account)
2. $ rpm -ivh kernel.src.rpm (this will unpackage the kernel source to the rpmbuild directories)

From there you can do whatever you wish with the kernel source and then recompile it.