Justin, All, On Thursday 28 February 2013 justin wrote: > On 2/28/13 7:08 PM, Yann E. MORIN wrote: > > Well, RHEL4 is still widely used, and it was released in 2005, so will > > not have ncurses-5.6 (updates may have it, but not everybody installs > > updates). > > question, will such system be updated then to latest kernel sources? And > if so, can't we require that for the ncurses based config menus need > newer ncurses?
It's not that those systems will be updated to run the latest kernel, but rather that those systems can be used to build a newer kernel for another system (think eg. cross-compilation and embedded). Regards, Yann E. MORIN. -- .-----------------.--------------------.------------------.--------------------. | Yann E. MORIN | Real-Time Embedded | /"\ ASCII RIBBON | Erics' conspiracy: | | +33 662 376 056 | Software Designer | \ / CAMPAIGN | ___ | | +33 223 225 172 `------------.-------: X AGAINST | \e/ There is no | | http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/ | _/*\_ | / \ HTML MAIL | v conspiracy. | '------------------------------^-------^------------------^--------------------' -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
