[ale] ifup problems, possible IPv6

Geoffrey esoteric at 3times25.net
Thu Feb 3 18:50:46 EST 2005


Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 13:42 -0500, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> 
>>Building
>>a custom kernel on Fedora Core 3 is a royal pain in the fanny, since it
>>no longer has a "sourcecode" rpm and the SRPM has to be used and that
>>can't be installed or updated by yum.  Building a vanilla kernel from a
>>primary kernel.org tarball is even further out there.  
> 
> 
> Wow, I had no idea.  I'm surprised that a major distribution is like
> that.  In Gentoo-land, kernel compiles are part of the natural order of
> things and you can either bring your kernels (including vanilla ones) in
> through the portage system by simply emerging them or you can drop them
> in /usr/src the old-fashioned way.

I'm not all too sure what Michael's alluding to, but I've built a couple 
of custom kernels from kernel.org and all went well.

Maybe you can expand on your concerns Michael?

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey



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