Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 15 Sep 2000 12:08:59 +0200 | Subject | Re: Distro kernel patches (was Re: Linux 2.2.18pre4) | From | Andreas Bombe <> |
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On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 05:31:17PM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > On 13 Sep 2000, Ralf Gerbig wrote: > > > * Chip Salzenberg writes: > > > > Hi Chip, > > > > > According to Ralf Gerbig: > > >> but SuSe and I believe RedHat etc. etc. _do_ ship patched kernels. > > > > > You've just made L-K's understatement of the day. > > > > [...] > > > > so I rest my case vs shrink wrap. > > > > Yep. I installed Suse-6.4 on my laptop. Since I needed APM to work, I > recompiled the kernel source that they supplied. First, I just did > `make oldconfig` so I could duplicate the existing kernel. Well. > No such luck. There was no way in hell I could duplicate the kernel > that they supplied, with the sources that they supplied. And there > was no secret 'patch' directory either...
I'm not sure (don't have a SuSE box right here) but I think they have separate packages for patched and unpatched kernel sources. I also remember their kernel patches are even separately stored somewhere.
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