On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 10:55:29AM +0200, Luis Gomez wrote: > So my question is: what is the approach people take for this point? Do you, > sysadmins with lots of machines, apt-get install kernel-source, or do you > rather get an official kernel? What pros and cons has each of these points? > Am I missing something important?
I roll my own; nomodules for servers or secure machines, modules for non-secure workstations. Configure them to the specific minimum requirements of the particular use and not one option more. I usually build on a different machine than the target one as servers or firewalls usually don't need gcc and such, which I remove from them where possible. One of these days I will get around to using the kpkg mechanism for my own stuff; I played with it once for a small rack of machines but then went on to something else and forgot all about it :-) Probably best recommendation is to build your own and make kpkg's.
