Re: Aunt Tillie builds a kernel (was Re: ISA hardware discovery -- the elegant solution)

From: David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
Date: Tue Jan 15 2002 - 15:59:45 EST


alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk said:
> > Really??? Have you ever tried this? RedHat provides a directory
> > of random patches that won't patch regardless of the order in
> > which you attempt patches (based upon date-stamps on patches or
> > date-stamps on files). It's like somebody just copied in some
> > junk, thinking nobody would ever bother.

> They apply nicely and the spec file defines which to apply and when.
> The srpm and rpm are generated together.

And just in case you're too incompetent or lazy to manage this, there's also
a kernel-source package which contains the resulting source tree, with all
the patches already applied to it.

--
dwmw2

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