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. diffs of the binaries has been discussed to death, with no resolution that I've seen. Also, as I said in the other reply, kernel updates for FC1 should slow down dramatically very soon. Dave
