[PLUG] Docs not local...

Ali Corbin ali.corbin at gmail.com
Tue Aug 22 16:39:41 UTC 2006


On 8/22/06, plug_0 at robinson-west.com <plug_0 at robinson-west.com> wrote:
> Is anyone else concerned with the move to wikis and web based documentation,
> especially for recent Linux distros such as Fedora Core 5, that local
> documentation will be increasingly treated as a thing of the past?  I need
> to know how to compile custom kernels to boot Fedora Core 3 and 5 NFS root.
> There used to be a kernel-source package, but now things have dramatically
> changed leaving me very confused.  I don't understand in Core 5 what the note
> that an initial ramdisk is required now means.  Information doesn't need to be
> on the web, it needs to be in my hands thank you.  This is especially true if
> I'm unfortunate enough to find myself offline or trying to support an older
> Fedora Core system that the web has lost interest in...
>
> Michael C. Robinson
>

There's still a kernel source package, but it's now a
kernel.*.src.rpm, where it used to be a kernel-source.*.rpm.  And yum
won't get src rpms for you (grumble, grumble) so you have to drag it
down from one of the mirrors yourself.

As for documentation, is the kernel-doc package not being kept up to date?

Ali



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