Re: [kbuild-devel] Converting the 2.5 kernel to kbuild 2.5

Tom Rini
2001-12-04T18:29:40Z

On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 06:26:27PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > > Python2 - which means most users dont have it.
> >
> > Most users sure as hell shouldn't be playing with 2.5.x right now
> > anyways. With any sort of 'luck' it'll be 6 months at least before
> > 2.5.x becomes stable enough that it will probably compile all the time
> > again and not have a random fs eating bug. In 6 months even woody might
> > be frozen :)
>
> It wont become stable if nobody can configure it because nobody will build
> it or run it. Lots of people build non stable kernels because its
>
> a) fun
> b) a way to learn and play with the system
> c) they might make their own small fix and mark
>
> not all of the them are demon kernel hackers.

But they can't install python2? I _think_ there's src.rpms on
Python.org that will install as python2 even...

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Tom Rini (TR1265)