On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 12:21, Paul Heinlein wrote: > On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Michael A. Peters wrote: > > > What I have found is that you can take the redhat kernel config, get > > vanilla kernel source, and run "make oldconfig" using the new kernel > > source - and be just fine. > > You've done that successfully with Red Hat 9 or Fedora Core 1? I skipped both of those releases. I rejected 9 because 8 was good enough. I skipped FC1 because it was too new. > 2. The O_DIRECT patch/hack that allows rpm (actually, the underlying > Berkeley DB) to work correctly. That's scary - a kernel patch needed for a user space library to work properly? I'll have to look that one up and see what that's about - but I initially don't like the sound of that. -- Cheap Linux CD's - http://mpeters.us/linux/
