Kernel update
Robert P. J. Day
rpjday at mindspring.com
Wed Jul 4 18:42:35 UTC 2007
On Wed, 4 Jul 2007, Andy Green wrote:
> Rohan Kulkarni wrote:
>
> > Hello friends,
> > How do I update to the latest kernel version and then build
> > it without using YUM?I have the 2.6.21.1 <http://2.6.21.1> kernel and
> > want to
> > upgrade to 2.6.21.5 <http://2.6.21.5>.
>
> If you have a strong reason to want to have the latest kernel (like
> stuff doesn't work on your machine you suspect might work on the latest
> stuff), and you don't mind some risk (eg, you can be the very first
> person to discover the latest kernel craps up your filesystem), you can
> do this
>
> yum --enablerepo development update kernel
>
> Right this second that would get me 2.6.21-1.3244.fc8, you can leap even
> further into the future by going here
>
> http://mirror.hiwaay.net/pub/fedora/linux/development/i386/os/Fedora/
>
> where they have kernel-2.6.22-0.5.rc7.git2.fc8.i686.rpm
>
> Usually running development kernels on the current OS works out okay...
> but in the past there have been filesystem-trashers... don't blame me if
> it trashes your install.
or you can just clone the main git repo and take it from there.
frankly, that seems like the easiest solution, and it works fine for
me.
$ uname -r
2.6.22-rc7-nodbg
rday
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