On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 07:39:22PM +1100, Anand Kumria wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 07:32:08PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > Why should I make kernel packages instead of just compiling and using
> > kernels straight from tarballs?
>
> A couple of reasons:
>
> - you are building a kernel for a slower machine
> - you intend to distribute this kernel onto a lot of machines (e.g. beowulf)
> - you'd like to have modules (lm_sensors, alsa, pcmcia) built easily
> (look in /usr/src/modules)
> - you'd like to have you kernel configuration, system maps, etc. always in
> sync (I find if I do it by hand, I always neglect to update the system
> map -- which makes kernel opps that much more useless)
having kernel patches automatically applied is useful too
i have the crypto patches (and at work, the nfs patches) automatically
applied to all kernel builds
i wouldn't mind a non-interactive mode for the generated postinst
scripts tho..
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- Gus
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