Re: getting kernel 2.2 into slink

[Brian White <bcwhite@pobox.com>]

> > Disclamers are of marginal use.  It will appear as installable and tell
> > people to "install me" just as an elevator buttun tells people "push me".
> 
> Installing a kernel 2.2 source package just dumps a tar file in /usr/src. I
> don't see how this could break a system. Actually building and installing
> that source package is more difficult than pushing an elevator button (even
> with kernel-package ;-)

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> But keep in mind we're also talking about a _source_package_.

Actually, when I wrote that message we were talking about an image package.

                                          Brian
                                  ( bcwhite@pobox.com )

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