The new kernel 2.6.16-1.2111 - nice

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 5/6/06, Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info> wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 06.05.2006, 04:33 -0500 schrieb Arthur Pemberton:
> > On 5/6/06, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > When will the updated kmod-ntfs packages be available?
>
> They are building currently -- will probably take two or three hours
> until all kmod's are build and published (I tried to build them
> yesterday evening [CET], but the buildsys got stuck -- that's life).
>

Cool. I am kinda curious about the whole process behind this. Is it
all automated or what? If it is, maybe a SETI type distributed cluster
for recompiling such kernel dependant packages would come in handy.

> > Yah, you really have look out for those kmod dependencies. I know of
> > know mechanismn in yum to automate this.
>
> Someone was working on a yum-plugin to optimize the handling of kmods.
> Don't know what's the current status of it.
>
Sweet. It isn't really that big a deal, however, I suppose such a
plug, installed by default would be handy.

BTW and OT, the madwifi drivers I got from Livna for FC5 do not work
properly at all, while those I had from ATrpms for FC4 worked
perfectly. Any suggestions on where to start troubleshooting?

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