Unnanounced migration phase at its end, non-transparency, "open" community project ... (was: No more kernel-source(code) ???)

[Aaron Bennett]

Arjan van de Ven wrote:

>>If you are going to change this procedure for Fedora Core to something 
>>like "install the src.rpm, edit a config file and rebuild it etc," it 
>>should not change mid-release!!!!!!!!!  
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>Nobody, and I mean nobody, suggested doing this for FC2 so far.
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ok, my bad and sorry for the exclamation points.  I saw the change made 
to rawhide and thought that might be a proposal for FC2. 

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>we already don't ship /usr/src/linux since about RHL7.1 days...
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no, but you ship /usr/src/linux-<version>; most people will find that.


>http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/index.html is what I hope google will point at....
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me too.  That's one example.  What I'm saying is that, if the "standard" 
way of making a change to your kernel in Linux is to recompile from 
source in /usr/src/linux-$(uname -r), and on Fedora Core that is not the 
way to do it, it's got to be very well documented and public that the 
"new" way is to do <foo>.

Anyhow, thanks for reading.

- Aaron


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Aaron Bennett
UNIX Administrator
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering