[ale] RH kernel upgrades (was 'Re: miscellaneous questions')

[Dunlap, Randy]

I use only linux-2.3.x.tar.gz  or ...tar.bz2 files.
'Course, these are development kernels, so they aren't
available as RPMs.
I'm using RH 6.0.

~Randy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Phillips [mailto:pynk at cc.gatech.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 7:11 AM
> To: Jeff Hubbs
> Cc: ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] RH kernel upgrades (was 'Re: miscellaneous questions')
> 
> 
> On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> 
> > Ben Phillips wrote:
> > 
> > > * I'm new to Red Hat.  When I installed new kernel source 
> using an RPM, it
> > > screwed up somehow.  I infer this from the fact that 
> kernel compiles fail
> > > now -- and for that matter, so does an ssh compile (!).  
> How would you go
> > > about trying to fix what happened without messing up 
> rpm's business?
> >
> > I'm trying to deal with this kernel compiling business 
> myself - no success
> > yet.
> > 
> > There's a text file that winds up in 
> /usr/src/linux/Documentation after
> > untarring called Changes and it goes over all the OTHER 
> things that must be at
> > a particular rev level for compiling to work.  I gave up 
> and decided I would
> > try to recompile my orig kernel and wrestle with that later.
> 
> BTW, I ended up just slapping in a good old .tar.gz kernel 
> distrib.  Is this
> bad under RH?  If so, why?
> 
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