On Sunday March 30 2003 11:08 am, Angus Auld wrote: > Thanks for the reply Tom. I am very confused as to the process > here. I have upgraded my kernel once in 8.2, and again in 9.0. I > thought that the idea of a src rpm was to rebuild it against your > particular arch and hardware, and then install it like any other > rpm. (using the correct method for kernel "install" rather than > "upgrade" of course). What is the purpose of the .src.rpm for the > kernel?
You would rebuild that 2.4.19.32mdk-1-1mdk.src.rpm for your system and arch, but in the process you end with a sh!+load of kernels you don't want or need. IE, the SMP kernel, the PPC kernel, Linus-kernel, and several others. That's why it was so large and had so many dependencies. IOW's it's a collection of all Mandrake source for various kernels. You only need the kernel-source rpm for the type of kernel you use. Sorry, I should'a explain that better in my earlier reply. But ya really ough'ta read over the mandrakeuser.org kernel link. It usually explains things better than I do. Actually the whole site does. I get confused too ;) http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/install/index.html#ku OTOH, let me interject some experienced opinion ( I always do anyhow ;) Compiling for your specific arch above i586 will only provide imagined improvement. Rarely anything measurable. Believe me, I've been tryin to prove myself wrong on this for years. Pushin optimizations too far will most often present more problems. Only the little bit of software specifically optimized to take advantage, would benefit anyway. Optimizing for Athlon FPU/cycle advantages over Intel does provide a touch better performance, but mostly, with most all apps, its imagined too. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Damn, Jr damn near won Texas again
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