Re: [Sheflug] RedHat and Script Kiddies

[Alex Hudson <nospam [at] alexhudson.com>]

On 22 Jan 2001 10:10:48 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>     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_?


Heh, don't get ahead of yourself Stephen!! I wasn't talking about
something funky, like an rpm --rebuild kernel-du-jour.srpm. I was
talking about upgrading source trees with a source rpm and expecting
them to be compilable (hint: they aren't). I personally think it's to do
with the /usr/src/linux madness that persists, but never mind...

. and actually, I'm shuddering at the thought of using some
redhat-thing to make a kernel rpm to install. Brrrr.


> 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.)


I seem to recall having PCMCIA problems too, with potato I think. Works
okay at the moment, although the DHCP client stuff seems to be screwed
(i.e., it's there, it's configured, it don't work). I end up having to
'pump -i eth0' manually every time. 


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


Or maybe they should ship stock kernels :))

Cheers,

Alex.

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