On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 01:20:31AM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 01:12:57AM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > > > I guess the argument is: there's a chance that something got skipped > > > and the a kernel got built with the name matching a /boot/config-* file > > > but actually with different options -- no risk of that with the /proc > > > approach. > > There's no risk of it happening with the current approach either. > > The .config that gets packaged is the .config rpmbuild faced > > when it built the RPM. Why would it be different ? > > For example if someone rebuilds a kernel with the same name/number outside > of RPM. > > But, y'know, Don't Do That. If someone is building their own kernel, they should know what they're doing. Folks building their own kernels get to turn on /proc/config.gz for themselves anyway if they really want it. This discussion is about the packaging of the kernel RPMs used by those who don't recompile. Dave
