Re: [Haifux] Kernel for Fedora: Repository or vanilla?

2010-09-19 Thread Oron Peled
On Monday, 20 בSeptember 2010 00:18:48 Eli Billauer wrote: > What I tried to figure out was whether there's something stupid about > just downloading the lastest kernel regardless of rpm packages, compile > and install it. Like in the good old times when I knew what happened on > my computer. I

Re: [Haifux] Kernel for Fedora: Repository or vanilla?

2010-09-19 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello Oron. Thanks for your lengthy answer. Unfortunately, I didn't manage to find what I was looking for. What I tried to figure out was whether there's something stupid about just downloading the lastest kernel regardless of rpm packages, compile and install it. Like in the good old times wh

Re: [Haifux] Kernel for Fedora: Repository or vanilla?

2010-09-19 Thread Oron Peled
On Sunday, 19 בSeptember 2010 22:56:28 Eli Billauer wrote: 1. I'll start with your kernel question: $ rpmquery kernel-PAE kernel-PAE-2.6.33.8-149.fc13.i686 kernel-PAE-2.6.34.6-47.fc13.i686 kernel-PAE-2.6.34.6-54.fc13.i686 2. So F-13 was updated from 2.6.33 series to 2.6.34 series kern

Re: [Haifux] Kernel for Fedora: Repository or vanilla?

2010-09-19 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello, As expected, all three kernels are represented in /boot and in grub.conf. And I hope not to upgrade my computer in the next three-four years at least. I happen to like when things work. Eli Rami Rosen wrote: Hi, Eli, So obviously there *are* updates to the kernel made by

Re: [Haifux] Kernel for Fedora: Repository or vanilla?

2010-09-19 Thread Rami Rosen
Hi, Eli, >So >obviously there *are* updates to the kernel made by yum, but >somehow >without changing the kernel version. How many images do you have under /boot ? isn't it three? ( ls /boot/vm*) ? and how many entries in grub.conf ? In case you have enough time for installation , consider Fedor

Re: [Haifux] Kernel for Fedora: Repository or vanilla?

2010-09-19 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Sunday 19 September 2010 13:12:26 Eli Billauer wrote: > Hi, > > > As some of you may recall, I took the unbelievable step of upgrading to > Fedora 12 a few months ago, and since then I've been adapting myself to > the concept of yum keeping track of the software on my computer and not > myself

[Haifux] Kernel for Fedora: Repository or vanilla?

2010-09-19 Thread Eli Billauer
Hi, As some of you may recall, I took the unbelievable step of upgrading to Fedora 12 a few months ago, and since then I've been adapting myself to the concept of yum keeping track of the software on my computer and not myself untarring-compiling-make install. Which is fine so far. But now i