Re: No more kernel-source(code) ??? (was: rawhide report: 20040623 changes)

[Alexandre Oliva <aoliva redhat com>]

On Jun 24, 2004, Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 13:03 -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> On Jun 24, 2004, Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com> wrote:
>> > SMP modules are different from the non-SMP ones, but that's not a
>> > problem as you can install kernel-smp in parallel with your main kernel
>> > package.  The i586 vs i686 part is the hard one.
>> 
>> Not hard at all.  Just add i586 to the kernel version number
>> somewhere, and it will be a different pathname just like smp.

> Yes, but that's ugly to look at :-)

So what?  smp is ugly too, but it's there because it's useful.  It
fixes a real problem, and it doesn't hurt much, so...

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