Re: [Sheflug] RedHat and Script Kiddies

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <nospam [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

>>>>> "Al" == Alex Hudson <home [at] alexhudson.com> writes:

    Al> Even stuff like the kernel source - I don't think I've ever
    Al> had a kernel source rpm install itself properly on a 6.1/6.2
    Al> machine

Doesn't RedHat have make-kpkg _yet_?

Making a kernel package automatically is dead easy, because the kernel
is the root of the dependency tree and requires nothing.  You set it
up so that it provides `kernel' and `kernel-$version', give it version
`$version' and package revision `local-$revno', and this will make
sure that modules packages (primarily PCMCIA) work right and so on.

Debian doesn't quite get this latter right (it keeps trying to upgrade
my PCMCIA _modules_ which would screw things proper), but other than
that I've never had a problem with a package made with make-kpkg.
(That wasn't a genuine kernel bug, I mean.)

Then they ought to provide RH-specific patch kits (as RPMs, of course)
for features that RH provides that Linus doesn't.

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