[Gllug] 2.6.31 is out

Chris Bell chrisbell at 3966.ukfsn.org
Mon Sep 14 09:54:05 UTC 2009


On Mon 14 Sep, Tethys wrote:
> 
> --------
> 
> Matthew King writes:
> 
> >> untar; create .config ; make rpm
> >
> >Are the rules to create an RPM in the pristine kernel sources (as
> >downloaded from kernel.org)? I was unaware of that. It seems unfair
> >to me :P
> 
> Linus uses (or at least used) an RPM based distribution. I'm sure
> patches to add a "make dpkg" option would be accepted, if such a
> thing doesn't already exist.
> 
> Tet

   There are already snapshot packages available for Debian, but the general
consensus appears to be that there are still a number of issues with the
initial release and they should wait until 2.6.31r1 appears and concentrate
on a further update to 2.6.30 for the moment.

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