[OT] please review new kernel build doc on fedora wiki
Sam Folk-Williams
samfw at redhat.com
Tue Apr 3 13:38:56 UTC 2007
On 04/02/07 11:29 -0400 Chuck Ebbert wrote:
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> When copying the kernel tree, the second copy should be:
>
> cp -alv ~/rpmbuild/redhat/kernel-2.6.x.orig ~/rpmbuild/redhat/kernel-2.6.x.new
>
> this will hardlink the original and new trees so diff will run much faster.
> Hardlinks should not present a problem because text editors know how to break
> them -- Midnight Commander now asks, so maybe a note telling people about
> the hardlinks could be added there as well.
Thanks Chuck - made that change.
Anything else - just let me know.
-Sam
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