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Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 15:12:27 +0200
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@caldera.de>
To: Marco Colombo <marco@esi.it>
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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Vendor kernels unpakced
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On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 03:09:51PM +0200, Marco Colombo wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> >
> > I'd like to announce a the availability of unpacked vendor kernel RPMs
> > on www.kernelnewbies.org.  We allow taking a look at the specfile and
> > the various patches included in that packages.  Currently the follwing
> > kernel packages are prvovided (others are of course welcome):
> >
> > 	Caldera OpenLinux 3.1 (linux-2.4.2-11)
> > 	Red Hat Linux 7.1 (kernel-2.4.2-2)
> >
> > Please take a look at http://www.kernelnewbies.org/kernels/
> 
> Please put RH 2.4.3-12 kernel online, instead. I guess that 99% of the
> people out there that read lk and/or understand what you did, have little
> interest on an outdated kernel package. Of course this applies to
> Caldera's kernel updates (if any), too.

I'm not too happy with that as there are just too many kernel updates in
a product livecycle.

	Christoph

-- 
Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade.