Re: Two questions about FC1 kernel upgrades

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On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 06:41:30AM +0000, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 05:33, Scott Burns wrote:
> 
> > This is a major problem for me.  I'm connected using a 33k6 modem from 
> > home.  Two kernels and a glibc inside a week is killing me.  To add 
> > insult to injury I spent all my spare time last night recompiling my 
> > kernel and getting the NVidia driver to work.  I woke up this morning to 
> > find 2149 was out.  With a 5 month old son, losing that spare time hurt.
> > 
> > I know many people are against the idea of patches, but could we at 
> > least have a patch set for the kernel source?  For those of us who roll 
> > their own, it'd reduce the download from 40 odd Meg down to a matter of 
> > kilobytes.  That's gotta take the strain off of a few servers...
> 
> In a matter of weeks, the Fedora CVS server will be in place, and
> updates will be as simple as doing a 'cvs update', 'make srpm'
> and then building the srpm locally.

Fantastic news!
--
Jack Bowling
mailto: jbinpg@xxxxxxx




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