I recently gave up on my slowly dying way-old slackware distribution.. I
was just getting too slow and hard to maintain.... So I installed redhat
5.1.. I am very impressed with the rpm capability.. But I would like to be
using a 2.1.xxx kernel...
I suppose I could just install the kernel the standard way I did w/
slackware, but now that I am all rpm-ey I am affraid of mangling any
existing rpm installs, and I really like the idea of being able to
uninstall/reinstall varying kernels..
I was about to make a spec file to build rpms.. with "make menuconfig" part
of the %prep.. But first I wanted to check if anything already exists
first.. Plus I havent been able to find out how to make dependancies in rms
yet... this sounds to me like a good way to implement all the minimium
requirements in Doc/Changes and it is partially why I am working on this.
It seems to me that this might be a usefull thing to distribute with the
kernels... ( a spec file ) So that people would be able to make their own
rpms from the source and install/uninstall kernels w/ different
options easily after they have been made.
For all I know, this has been done already, and is sitting on some FTP site
somwhere, and all of you are already using it. :)
Comments? Criticisms? Flames?
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