in an attempt to start summarizing red hat-related issues surrounding the 2.6 kernel, i'm interested in clarification on the need for (and function of) the few rawhide RPMS that seem to be necessary, particularly those RPMs that are *absolutely* necessary and those that are required only for additional apps. using the versions that i got either from rawhide or from arjan's directory: modutils-2.4.21-18: pretty clearly necessary to handle both the 2.6 way of dealing with modules, and backward compatible for the 2.4 kernel. seems pretty obvious you need to upgrade this. mkinitrd-3.5.7-2: i upgraded this based on someone else's recommendation, and it seems to work, but can someone explain what it adds/fixes WRT to 2.6? just curious. initscripts-7.28-1: again, updated based on someone else's advice. i still get a number of boot-time errors/warnings, but once the system is up, everything seems to be fine. so what's the change here? nfs-utils-1.0.3-4.1: clearly optional, depending on whether you're running NFS. what's the fixes/enhancements here? oprofile-0.5.4-3: apparently, a 2.6-compatible profiler, which is only necessary if you plan on profiling so, starting with a pristine 2.6-test kernel, is the above all that one needs to upgrade for the time being? and are there any interesting patches in the current 2.6-test RPMs that would be worth pointing out? thanks. rday -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
