Why no /proc/config.gz on FC-3 kernel?
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Sun Nov 28 06:22:44 UTC 2004
On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 01:20:31AM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 01:12:57AM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> > > I guess the argument is: there's a chance that something got skipped
> > > and the a kernel got built with the name matching a /boot/config-* file
> > > but actually with different options -- no risk of that with the /proc
> > > approach.
> > There's no risk of it happening with the current approach either.
> > The .config that gets packaged is the .config rpmbuild faced
> > when it built the RPM. Why would it be different ?
>
> For example if someone rebuilds a kernel with the same name/number outside
> of RPM.
>
> But, y'know, Don't Do That.
If someone is building their own kernel, they should know what they're doing.
Folks building their own kernels get to turn on /proc/config.gz for themselves
anyway if they really want it. This discussion is about the packaging of
the kernel RPMs used by those who don't recompile.
Dave
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