FLAME____ Why is the kernel source not included
Matthew Miller
mattdm at mattdm.org
Fri Oct 15 20:35:42 UTC 2004
On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 02:18:26PM -0600, Ken Johanson wrote:
> >Uh, you should download the singled kernel-smp-*.rpm. Or more likely,
> >you've already got it installed since your SMP capable system was
> >autodetected at install time.
> If I installed with a single proc, then upgraded? Or vise versa?
Depends how you upgrade. If you switch motherboards, than probably not. But
if you have an SMP-capable system with just one processor, you'll get the
SMP kernel by default.
> I dont either - I say its trivial to just include it on the installer
> discs. Its the most sound way to do it - no versioning, no networking or
> downloading or md5summing or biting our nails. It just works. So
> beautifully.
Okay. But it works _more_ beautifully using the source RPM.
> This I fully agree on, that updates are usually needed anyway, except
> that we should be able to do incremental upgrades to the original source
> tree, not have to grab entire source trees or prebuilt, one-size-fits
> all binaries, at the moment we realize "hey - this distro didnt come
> with the src tree - let me donload it or burn it onto disc"
I'm not even sure what your point is here. :) Where's the "except" coming
from? What's preventing you from doing this? You don't need the whole source
tree at all -- just the source for the packages you happen to want to
rebuild.
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Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org <http://www.mattdm.org/>
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