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Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 23:54 -0700, Josh Saddler wrote: |
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>> 1) kick out any and all code references to 2.4 kernels, assuming none |
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>> are available for that arch -- note that things like vanilla-sources |
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>> (which may have been a 2.4 kernel package) are unsupported. 2.6 only as |
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>> much as possible. |
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> No architectures are shipping 2.4-enabled media. You can still do an |
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> install for 2.4 on a couple arches, but nobody's shipping it. |
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sparc-sources is still 2.4 |
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hardened-sources still has 2.4 available |
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>> 2) update kernel install directions: no more "cp vmlinuz foo" or any |
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>> more "cp arch/whatever bar". let's get this thing modernized. No need |
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>> for it; a simple "make && make modules_install && make install" does the |
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>> whole thing for you, no manual intervention is required, beyond reading |
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>> grub.conf to make sure it's pointed to kernel /vmlinuz. "make install" |
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>> is much better than the cp crap. |
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> Personally, I don't like this one, but I'm not really the one making the |
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> calls here. My main complaint is that it's actually very inconsistent |
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> in what it does across multiple architectures. As someone who owns (and |
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> uses) 9 architectures, I prefer the manual instructions better as it |
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> gives me a clearer picture of what is actually going on behind the |
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> scenes. |
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My preference as well, even though I use only 7 arches :) |
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Cheers, |
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/ Xavier Neys |
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