Redhat 9 -- where is "download"?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 12:17:20PM -0400, William Park wrote:
> Me no see wood; damned trees are in my way!  Thanks, Lennart.
> 
> These are kernel stuffs:
> 
>     kernel-2.4.20-8.athlon.rpm           13535  KB  03/13/03  00:00:00
>     kernel-2.4.20-8.i586.rpm             13366  KB  03/13/03  00:00:00
>     kernel-2.4.20-8.i686.rpm             13567  KB  03/13/03  00:00:00
>     kernel-BOOT-2.4.20-8.i386.rpm        6279   KB  03/13/03  00:00:00
>     kernel-bigmem-2.4.20-8.i686.rpm      14131  KB  03/13/03  00:00:00
>     kernel-doc-2.4.20-8.i386.rpm         1759   KB  03/13/03  00:00:00
>     kernel-pcmcia-cs-3.1.31-13.i386.rpm  301    KB  02/24/03  00:00:00
>     kernel-smp-2.4.20-8.athlon.rpm       14009  KB  03/13/03  00:00:00
>     kernel-smp-2.4.20-8.i686.rpm         14123  KB  03/13/03  00:00:00
>     kernel-source-2.4.20-8.i386.rpm      37741  KB  03/13/03  00:00:00
>     kernel-utils-2.4-8.29.i386.rpm       229    KB  02/24/03  00:00:00
> 
> I'm downloading 
>     kernel-BOOT-2.4.20-8.i386.rpm
> right now.
> 
> Sorry for more newbie questions:
> 
>     - Does each RPM includes kernel .config file?  I need to patch the
>       kernel and compile.
> 
>     - '-8' suffix.  Does it indicate it was compiled 8 times?  Or, does
>       it mean 8 patches were applied?  I heard that RedHat applies
>       kernel patches, in order to vendor lockin.

Well officially it seems it was to fix problems users reported (They
do/did have alan cox on contract after all to fix things).  Some people
also consider it vendor lockin since much of what worked on redhat only
worked if you used their excact kernel.

-8 means it was their 8th kernel source patch collection they released
as far as I remember.

I believe it normally stores the config file in /boot, at least debian
does and I seem to recall redhat does too.

Lennart Sorensen
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