Re: Where has the kernel-doc package gone?
On Mon, 30 Aug 2021 17:07:21 -0000
"Nils K" <nilskemail+github(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I recently had to perform a bit of development/research where I
often
had to take a look in the kernel documentation.
Most of the time was spend offline so I wanted to download the
`kernel-doc` package however it does not seem to exist. Some old
fedora documentations still refer to it however somewhere in the 2x
iteration of fedora it seems to have gone missing. CentOS 8 also
still has it. Would it be possible to add this back to the repos?
Easiest would be go to the kernel.org page and use the savepage
entry in the File menu of the browser to save a copy of the
documentation. Then you can access it offline.
A more involved and clumsy workaround is to download the src.rpm
package [1] and unpack it. It is a little complicated because you have
to run
rpmdev-setuptree
to create the ~/rpmbuild heirarchy of directories and then
rpm -ivh [src.rpm]
[***NOT*** as root] to install the src.rpm in ~/rpmbuild and then
rpmbuild -bp kernel.spec
in ~/rpmbuild/SPECS
to expand the source.
The source tree containing all the documentation will then be under
~/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel[...]/linux[...]/Documentation
1. https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=8