Updating FC2 with FC4 kernel sources

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Wed Jan 4 19:06:28 UTC 2006


On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 01:49:32PM -0500, Mark Haney wrote:
 > Dave Jones wrote:
 > 
 > >On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 12:55:01PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
 > >> On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 11:51:10AM -0500, Mark Haney wrote:
 > >>  > Are there any gotchas to taking the FC4 latest kernel SRPMS and 
 > >building >  > a binary RPM with them on FC2?
 > >> 
 > >> Lots of things suddenly stop working because the userspace isn't
 > >> updated. udev, alsa-lib, wireless-tools, yadayada..
 > >
 > >Scratch udev off that list, I forgot it wasn't in FC2.
 > >It might not be /too/ bad, but I wouldn't be surprised if
 > >some of the other things broke.
 > 
 > But wouldn't a vanilla source kernel have the same issues?

Indeed. That's exactly where compatability problems come from.

		Dave




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