Re: Building an i686 kernel rpm

["James P. Blanding" <blandingj cs uri edu>]

i think you're missing the fact that Michael is building a kernel rpm, not
just a modified kernel.  even if he is only upgrading the kernel on one
system, it would still make future upgrades easier.  i have found this to
be the case in my department, where i modify the stock rh6.2 kernels to
best fit our systems.  we have only one SMP system, but i still find that
maintaining the smp version of our modified kernel rpm keeps things
cleaner than just installing kernel-source and compiling manually.  of 
course, "cleaner" and "easier" are subjective terms...

--james

On Thu, 30 May 2002, rpjday wrote:

> On Thu, 30 May 2002 mgoins@kcp.com wrote:
> 
> > I just needed to add one patch and I thought this would be faster, and I
> > wanted to try and stay a close as could to the default redhat.
> 
> you're not losing anything by using the kernel-source RPM.  i'm suspecting
> you might not appreciate the difference between the kernel-source and
> kernel "src" RPMs.
> 
> unless you need to see the "pristine" kernel source, as well as the redhat
> patches to that, go with kernel-source.
> 
> rday
> 
> 
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