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

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Sat Jun 26 14:16:36 UTC 2004


On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 08:56:26AM -0400, Willem Riede wrote:
> Right. But this needs to include a convenient way to build modules that
> are present in the kernel source that Arjan doen't build (for reasons I
> don't understand but drive me crazy) such as ide-scsi.

The easiest way is to edit the .config files in the source rpm package
add "wr" or "ac" or whatever to the end of the version and rebuild
and install.

Your extra modules are then rpm managed, and the version means that a new
RH security update wil replace your kernel





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