Installation of sources

Installation of sources

[Anshuman Singh Rawat]

Hi,
I recently installed Linux (RHL 7.3) for the first time in my life.
Now what do I do install/view the sources? I read in some book where i 
cud find the sources but that directory is absolutely empty, so I 
guess the sources have to be installed first.

-Anshu

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Re: Installation of sources

[Joseph Jackson]

Anshuman Singh Rawat wrote:

> Hi,
> I recently installed Linux (RHL 7.3) for the first time in my life.
> Now what do I do install/view the sources? I read in some book where i 
> cud find the sources but that directory is absolutely empty, so I 
> guess the sources have to be installed first.
> 
> -Anshu
> 
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Installing from the iso version (the downloaded one or the one in the store) off 
the first cd does not install any of the source code for any of the packages. 
If you bought the box set there should be a cd that is full of all the source 
code.  If you didn't buy it you can also download the sources for it all from 
redhats ftp site.

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Re: Installation of sources

[Anshuman Singh Rawat]

Does the files valhalla-SRPMS-disc1.iso/valhalla-SRPMS-disc2.iso 
contain the source code? If yes, then do we have to burn them to cd as 
iamge file and boot from that cdrom to install them, as done for 
installing linux?

----- Original Message -----
From: Joseph Jackson <skoidat@lvcm.com>
Date: Sunday, July 21, 2002 10:10 am
Subject: Re: Installation of sources

> Anshuman Singh Rawat wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > I recently installed Linux (RHL 7.3) for the first time in my life.
> > Now what do I do install/view the sources? I read in some book 
> where i 
> > cud find the sources but that directory is absolutely empty, so 
> I 
> > guess the sources have to be installed first.
> > 
> > -Anshu
> > 
> > -
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> 
> 
> Installing from the iso version (the downloaded one or the one in 
> the store) off 
> the first cd does not install any of the source code for any of 
> the packages. 
> If you bought the box set there should be a cd that is full of all 
> the source 
> code.  If you didn't buy it you can also download the sources for 
> it all from 
> redhats ftp site.
> 
> 

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Re: Installation of sources

[Ray Olszewski]

At 12:34 PM 7/21/02 -0400, Anshuman Singh Rawat wrote:
>Does the files valhalla-SRPMS-disc1.iso/valhalla-SRPMS-disc2.iso
>contain the source code?

Almost surely yes. SRPM is the standard RH code for Source RPM..

>If yes, then do we have to burn them to cd as
>iamge file and boot from that cdrom to install them, as done for
>installing linux?

No. You don't BOOT an SRPM CD. You just mount it and get the SRPMs you 
need. (In my experience, people don't install ALL the source on a working 
Linux system. When they need a particular package's source, they just 
install that. YMMV, though.)

Burning a set of CDs and mounting them is one way to do this. Another is to 
use the loopback device to mount the iso image as a filesystem without 
actually burning it to a CD.  Which is better for you depends on your level 
of expertise, the hardware on the Linux system itself (how fast is its CD 
drive? how big is its hard disk?), and probably other considerations that 
don't come at once to mind.

BTW, in discussing source, I've been thinking in terms of source for the 
applications. Kernel source is usually handled differently -- it is almost 
invariably included on the binary-distributions disks, no doubt because 
custom kernel compiles are about fifty times as common as recompiling any 
*single* other source package. For these, look on your RH disks for 
packages with names like kernel-source-2.4.XX.rpm (replace XX with the 
appropriate number for whatever kernel version RH distributes).


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Installation of sources

[Benny Pedersen]

Originally to: Anshuman Singh Rawat

Hello Anshuman.

21 Jul 02 01:14, you wrote to all:

 AR> I recently installed Linux (RHL 7.3) for the first time in my life.
 AR> Now what do I do install/view the sources? I read in some book where
 AR> i cud find the sources but that directory is absolutely empty, so I
 AR> guess the sources have to be installed first.

you can download the source iso files from ftp.redhat.com or any mirror, or get single src.rpm files, but i recoment to get the 2 iso files with have docoments on howto :-)

fyi the complete 7.3 is 5 iso files

Benny

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Installation of sources

[Benny Pedersen]

Originally to: Anshuman Singh Rawat

Hello Anshuman.

21 Jul 02 12:34, you wrote to all:

 AR> Does the files valhalla-SRPMS-disc1.iso/valhalla-SRPMS-disc2.iso
 AR> contain the source code? If yes, then do we have to burn them to cd as
 AR> iamge file and boot from that cdrom to install them, as done for
 AR> installing linux?

no thay just need to be mounted :-)

Benny

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