RE: New Kernel RPMs

[Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2002-01-24 at 09:24, Matthijs van der Klip wrote:
> > Hm, still 2.4.9!  The update might not be too difficult, I'll take
> > a look sometime soon.
> 
> Hi Eric,
> 
> Just to let you know: I just grabbed the xfs patches (20000 and up) from the
> 2.4.9-12 SRPM and put them in the 2.4.9-21 source. I haven't tested it yet,
> but
> I have successfully built 2.4.9-21SGI_XFS_1.0.2 RPM's. So it seems very easy
> indeed.
> 
> I need 2.4.9-21 badly as it fixes a lot of troubles I have been having with
> IBM machines and their RAID controllers.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Matthijs van der Klip
> Dutch Public Broadcasting Organisation
> 

The tricky part with all of this is we probably should to fold in the
appropriate xfs fixes from the cvs tree, there are a lot of them since
these rpms were spun.

Steve


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