Two questions about FC1 kernel upgrades
Jack Bowling
jbinpg at shaw.ca
Wed Jan 14 07:18:01 UTC 2004
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 06:41:30AM +0000, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 05:33, Scott Burns wrote:
>
> > This is a major problem for me. I'm connected using a 33k6 modem from
> > home. Two kernels and a glibc inside a week is killing me. To add
> > insult to injury I spent all my spare time last night recompiling my
> > kernel and getting the NVidia driver to work. I woke up this morning to
> > find 2149 was out. With a 5 month old son, losing that spare time hurt.
> >
> > I know many people are against the idea of patches, but could we at
> > least have a patch set for the kernel source? For those of us who roll
> > their own, it'd reduce the download from 40 odd Meg down to a matter of
> > kilobytes. That's gotta take the strain off of a few servers...
>
> In a matter of weeks, the Fedora CVS server will be in place, and
> updates will be as simple as doing a 'cvs update', 'make srpm'
> and then building the srpm locally.
Fantastic news!
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Jack Bowling
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