Re: ever migrate from Fedora to Scientific Linux or CentOS?

["Paul Johnson" <pauljohn32 gmail com>]

On 10/31/07, Arthur Pemberton <pemboa gmail com> wrote:
> On 10/31/07, Paul Johnson <pauljohn32 gmail com> wrote:
> > We have lots of Fedora systems and it is turning out to be too much
> > work to keep them up to date.
>
> Do tell, what packages of yours require recompilation every kernel
> upgrade? That seems a bigger issue.

These are the modules I need to build whenever the kernel changes.
Sometimes I can get nvidia from livna, sometimes it is not ready yet.
I build these as RPMS, so usually there's just minimal work to run
rpmbuild and then copy the RPMS onto the server where yum finds them
for the workstations.

nvidia
openafs
ipw3945

> Also, why aren't you using (what I believe to be) freely available
> Fedora build systems to automate the process - regardless of your
> final choice of distro.
>
Tempted to say WFT are you talking about, but I'm trying not to cuss.

What do you mean? I mean to say.




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