Redhat 9 -- where is "download"?

[William Park]

On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 12:53:58PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> > 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.

Okey, I am downloading 
    kernel-source-2.4.20-8.i386.rpm
also.

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

Thanks, yes, I see /boot/config-...


I have question about 'rpm' usage.  How do you extract the files into
current directory, without converting .rpm to .tgz?

I tried
    rpm -i --prefix /path/to/current/dir kernel-BOOT-2.4.20-8.i386.tgz
but I get error message
    "package kernel-BOOT is not relocateable"

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