Compiling the 2.6 kernel question.

[Grizzly(Francis Smit)]

Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:

>On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 01:27, Elam Daly wrote:
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>>Howdy all,
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>>I'm reading the 2.6 kernel documentation, and I've noticed that it 
>>requires procps > 3.1.13 and that fedora ships with 2.017.
>>Has anyone had problems with compilation using fedora and if so, how did 
>>you remedy the situation?
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>In fact, you don't need procps to *compile* a 2.6 kernel, but the
>special, new semantics of the 2.6 kernel requires and updated procps
>package to display some new information.
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>However, Fedora procps package already includes a lot of stuff that is
>2.6-aware (I'm running 2.6.0-test9-mm5 on Fedora and haven't upgraded a
>single package), so you are on the safe side ;-)
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Ummm where did you get the 2.6.0 kernel is it in a rpm, and if so can we 
use yum to update ??

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