From: Ronan Waide (waider at domain waider.ie)
Date: Fri 05 Jul 2002 - 14:39:52 IST
On July 5, Brian.ODonoghue at domain kbs.ie said:
> The question remains... why upgrade your compiler just to compile the
> sources from an SRPM, perhaps I'm attempting feigned elitism, but is that
> not like using an elephant gun for a mouse? Why not make life easy and just
> get the kernel sources from ftp.kernel.org and apply any patches you want to
> that source instead of upgrading the compiler on a development server?
I think someone else answered this the last time: the RedHat people
put a lot of effort into their kernels, including dragging in and
testing patches from Alan Cox that aren't otherwise going to be
trivial to include. To throw away all that effort might be considered
a little hasty, particularly if all you're looking for is a known-good
fire-and-forget kernel compile.
Waider. [joke about Ents and hastiness and so forth]
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