Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 1 Aug 2000 16:56:44 -0700 | | From | Greg KH <> | | Subject | Re: Good luck when RedHat 7.0 comes out (was RE: test5 oops after kswapd)... |
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On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 10:44:29PM +0200, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 11:47:47AM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote: > > > > Maybe RedHat doesn't use a thorough source and release methodology > > for their Beta's? > > No, we of course build the whole distribution with the tools we provide. > The thing is we provide a special compiler for kernel compilations (kgcc) > and build kernels with it.
But unless you have changed something, you can not compile and build the whole RedHat distribution _on_ the distribution itself (i.e. self hosting) without a number of changes needed to some packages [1].
We (WireX) found this out in building the Immunix distribution [2].
greg k-h
1. Somewhere around 40 packages at last count.
2. RedHat 6.2 recompiled with the StackGuard compiler. See http://www.immunix.org/
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