On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 17:55 -0500, Jim Perrin wrote:
In the interest of sanity, I say we let this thread die. Until William is able to understand the flaws in the information he gives, or believe what several developers are telling him ( ie there's no way to build a kernel from a -devel package)
I already admitted that, and it has been brought up afterward 2 times now but two different people.
then there's little point in continuing this. I don't want to see the mailing list turn into the same noise that embodied the irc channel for nearly 2 hours.
Exaggeration. I was barely on irc for 10 minutes before silenced the first time, and 5 or so minutes the second time. Over the course of say 30 minutes. 45 max? And no one else was talking on the channel atm.
The centosplus kernel is very clear proof that the x86_64 kernel can be rebuilt, and built with varying modules etc.
Fine, have you personally done that? I wanted to converse with someone WHO HAS BUILT A x86_64 kernel running CentOS.
Still have yet to confirm from anyone in this thread or in IRC if they have, and the steps. What I have been after the entire time I have no gotten. It's been side track by biasness, the gentoo factor and stuff that did not pertain to why I entered IRC or my question?
That it cannot be easily rebuilt on gentoo is something that doesn't concern me at all.
Forget Gentoo. Have you personally done it on CentOS? I am looking for someone who has.
It could be anything from autoFU version differences to nptl not being on the gentoo box to solar flares. It's not something I feel we need to support. End of discussion.
Well only thing I can say there is most stuff on Gentoo is much newer than in CentOS, at least with regard to CentOS4. Granted it can be anything, but I doubt it's as distro env dependent as you all seem to make it.
Since I was able to build a i686 kernel that works perfectly with the binary Adaptec driver for RH 2.6.9-11.EL. I am just trying to do it now with a x86_64 kernel.
Arguments of "but gentoo $VALUE" will only be answered with a retort of "This ain't gentoo".
I know, and I am not asking stuff that has anything really do to with Gentoo. I am trying to find out who has built a custom x86_64 kernel using the CentOS sources.
The more I ask and less it get's answered seems like either those that have do not want to respond. And/or those that are responding have not, and have no clue about what could cause what problem.