On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 02:18:26PM -0600, Ken Johanson wrote: > >Uh, you should download the singled kernel-smp-*.rpm. Or more likely, > >you've already got it installed since your SMP capable system was > >autodetected at install time. > If I installed with a single proc, then upgraded? Or vise versa? Depends how you upgrade. If you switch motherboards, than probably not. But if you have an SMP-capable system with just one processor, you'll get the SMP kernel by default. > I dont either - I say its trivial to just include it on the installer > discs. Its the most sound way to do it - no versioning, no networking or > downloading or md5summing or biting our nails. It just works. So > beautifully. Okay. But it works _more_ beautifully using the source RPM. > This I fully agree on, that updates are usually needed anyway, except > that we should be able to do incremental upgrades to the original source > tree, not have to grab entire source trees or prebuilt, one-size-fits > all binaries, at the moment we realize "hey - this distro didnt come > with the src tree - let me donload it or burn it onto disc" I'm not even sure what your point is here. :) Where's the "except" coming from? What's preventing you from doing this? You don't need the whole source tree at all -- just the source for the packages you happen to want to rebuild. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
