Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 23:54 -0700, Josh Saddler wrote:
>> 1) kick out any and all code references to 2.4
kernels, assuming none
>> are available for that arch -- note that things
like vanilla-sources
>> (which may have been a 2.4 kernel package) are
unsupported. 2.6 only as
>> much as possible.
>
> No architectures are shipping 2.4-enabled media. You
can still do an
> install for 2.4 on a couple arches, but nobody's
shipping it.
sparc-sources is still 2.4
hardened-sources still has 2.4 available
>> 2) update kernel install directions: no more
"cp vmlinuz foo" or any
>> more "cp arch/whatever bar". let's get
this thing modernized. No need
>> for it; a simple "make && make
modules_install && make install" does the
>> whole thing for you, no manual intervention is
required, beyond reading
>> grub.conf to make sure it's pointed to kernel
/vmlinuz. "make install"
>> is much better than the cp crap.
>
> Personally, I don't like this one, but I'm not really
the one making the
> calls here. My main complaint is that it's actually
very inconsistent
> in what it does across multiple architectures. As
someone who owns (and
> uses) 9 architectures, I prefer the manual instructions
better as it
> gives me a clearer picture of what is actually going on
behind the
> scenes.
My preference as well, even though I use only 7 arches 
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