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Re: Redhat 6: real or rumor?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gordon Messmer)
Wed Nov 18 18:04:00 1998
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 14:58:50 -0800
From: Gordon Messmer <yinyang@eburg.com>
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Jonathan Irving wrote:
>
> On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Joe Tseng wrote:
[snip]
> I think the problems with 2.0.36 can only be attributed to
> the kernel developers insofar as they let redhat bundle an
> unfinished release with 5.2. The "pristine" sources (and I
> use the term purely because RH claim to release only
> pristine sources) I used once the 2.0.36 kernel was
[snip]
I really don't think that the kernel developers have much to do with
what redhat ships. Also, RedHat5.2 is not the first distribution to
ship with a pre-patched kernel. I haven't had any problems with these
kernels, either.
As for pristine sources, please do not make any mistake as to RedHat's
claim to pristine sources. This reference is ONLY to the way that RPM
works. A source rpm contains three important parts, the original
"pristine" sources, any patches that need to be applied, and a .spec
file that ties the two together. The pristine sources are tar.gz
files that are exactly as the developers of the program released
them. Any work that RedHat has done to make these sources work
better, or work on their system are released in patch files. This
method of distributing pristine sources and patches is of great
benefit to the RedHat developers and to developers who would make
patches to RedHat's distribution rpms.
MSG
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