[CentOS-devel] Building a custom 2.6.9 kernel

Fri Feb 3 22:34:29 UTC 2006
Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>

Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 16:04, Karanbir Singh wrote:
>> Les Mikesell wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 15:01, William Warren wrote:
>>>
>>>> Move elsewhere..that 
>>>> is the extent of your rights and theirs.
>>> It may not be a strict requirement of the GPL but I think
>>> I've seen recommendations about packaging the source and
>>> documentation so as to make it easy to rebuild, modify
>>> and use in other ways.  Seems odd that anyone involved
>>> in redistributing GPL'd material would be so against
>>> that spirit...
>>>
>> Les,
>>
>> I am not sure what your point is ?
> 
> I thought I detected a certain animosity toward someone
> trying to rebuild the centos-packaged kernel in a
> different environment.  Maybe I misinterpreted things...
> 

naw, we tried to help him on IRC, most people there are very helpful.

the problem we had was that conversation with this guy was heading up 
the troll-scale so fast and so high, that it really just regressed into 
noise.

he was pointed at the .src.rpm 5 times, but his mindset of building out 
of kernel-devel instead was hard to shake off ( he carried that with him 
  into the mailing list ). I recall being pointed at a few kernel 
tarballs that had been built out of this said kernel-devel package even! 
looking into one package it turned out to be the kernel built on 
Johnny's machines.

*shrug*

its a no issue as far as i am concerned, this guy does not know about 
centos or how its setup, we can try and tell him - whatever info he 
takes away with him, is upto him. but if he is going to be a problem and 
troll, he is going to get the +q treatment, just as anyone else does.


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