New release of F11 for the XO-1 - Build11

James Cameron quozl at laptop.org
Sun Jan 10 17:05:56 EST 2010


On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 06:18:36AM -0800, Yioryos Asprobounitis wrote:
> The problem that I had with the new build system and the resulting
> link-heavy builds is that I could not rpm -i a different kernel. I was
> trying to see if the kernel from here (
> http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2009-December/026909.html )
> will fix the camera problem but the new kernel was nowhere to be
> found, even if rpm reported no problems during installation.  Is
> this because this kernel predates the current build system, by design,
> or a bug?  

It is by design, and it has the side effect of preventing you from
easily upgrading your kernel.  You have to move the files around
manually after you have installed the new kernel.

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James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/



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