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Re: 2.4.4



Tzafrir Cohen wrote:

> > What I care is its dependency on the other parts of Cooker, i.e. can it be
> > installed under Mandrake 8.0?
> 
> This is a kernel. What can it depend on?

Wow.....  Zillion things...

One example:

In one of the last Cookers (I don't know if the latest too), I saw
an XFS supporting kernel, plus a special XFS fsck and other user-
level programs for XFS. If you take this kernel and put it under the
standard 8.0, you don't have these programs.

Let me re-ask my question:

I didn't ask if the Cooker's kernel depends on specific parts of
Cooker; It DOES depend. What I asked, was - what parts exactly?

> Assuming you have a proper compiler, binutils, modutils, etc. for 2.4,
> there should be no problem using/building this spesific version.

There may be a different compiler, glibc, etc., in Cooker vs. 8.0.

> I suppose you'll want to compile it yourself. Either download the -source
> rpm and build it, or (probably a better option) download the source rpm,
> extract it, and run 'rpm -bp path/to/kernel.spec' . This will extract the
> kernel and apply all of the patches.
> 
> The atvantage here is that by tweaking the spec file you can try to add or
> remove certain patches ("try": because some patches depend on other
> patches, and may need to be changed in order to be applied properly after
> another patch was removed. Still, it is worth a try).

I'll do it.
Thanks!
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