Chuck MacKinnon wrote:
>
> I don't mean to annoy anyone. But I would like to know if there is a
> way to get rpms to upgrade what is needed to get the 2.2.x kernels
> working correctly with SuSE6.0.
Compile them yourself to be sure all the modules are correct.
> Looking at
> /usr/src/linux/Documentation/CHANGES and seeing what the recommended
> versions of the software, it doesn't appear that everything is "up to
> snuff". Running 2.2.3 at home I can now no longer do a man on
> anything.
I'm running 2.2.3 right now, and made no package upgrades to my suse6.
Man works fine.
> I can get the .tgz's and compile myself...But when I
> upgrade to newer versions of SuSE it has problems...I was thinking
> this was due to all of the packages I installed from source. Is there
> an easy way to make rpms from my compiled source? I know RTFM. But I
> really don't have the time now. I was hoping someone could shed some
> light on this for me...Thanks
It takes less than a half hour to compile your 2.2.3 kernel and modules,
from a tgz source package. The biggest time consumer is going
thru the make menuconfig to customize your kernel.
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