On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 09:41:43AM +0200, dittigas wrote: > Is anyone aware of distributions that have a thorough managment of > kerenl patches. e.g. Users can easily apply all patches from and with > the tools available to the distribution rather than externaly. > > I've allready seen Debian has a nice way of distributing some patches > and it is very easy to follow and apply.
And it is also easy to build a kernel-image package. Installing it is quite smooth (I have had some issues with mkinitrd. I wish it was more clear in the docs and/or more standartized). > Is this the same case with > Gentoo and Others? In RedHat and Mandrake you can try to hack the kernel's srpm. Unlike deb, rpm has its own patch management. All the patches are there, so you can theroretically add and remove. And you can easilly unpack&patch again with 'rpm -bp' . Though there are really many patches there. You have been warned. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
