No objection. I was just informing people people about that. As
you can see, it isn't enough supplying the patches in the source
rpm, otherwise everybody would know about it, they don't. :)
Pedro Rodrigues
On 28 Jan 00, at 17:08, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 27 Jan 2000 18:44:56 -0000, "Pedro M. Rodrigues"
> <pmanuel@myrealbox.com> said:
>
> > On 27 Jan 00, at 12:32, Gene Harris wrote:
>
> >> Well, it doesn't smell fishy here! *grin*
> >>
> >> I am running RedHat Professional 6.1 with Secure Web Server right
> >> out of the box. They didn't say anything about patches. And I
> >> seriously doubt that DB2 is using raw disk access on their personal
> >> edition.
>
> > They won't tell you. For instance, they include nfs and raid
> > patches in the stable distribution, among other patches.
>
> Hmm??? All of the patches applied to Red Hat kernels are supplied in
> the source rpm, on the source CD. The NFS and Raid patches you talk
> about are the standard ones used to get stable operation: they are the
> official patches from the maintainers of NFS and Raid, and they are
> used by every single Linux distribution that cares about its kernel
> working properly --- it's far from being Red Hat-specific kernel code.
> What is your objection?
>
> --Stephen
>
>
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