[PLUG] Suse 10.1

[Dwight Hubbard]

If I recall correctly they have a README.SuSE file in their kernel source
rpms that tells how to build a kernel/modules (don't have a SuSE box handy
to check right now though)

On 10/4/06, Carlos Konstanski <ckonstanski at pippiandcarlos.com> wrote:
>
> I would like to hound you good folks with one more question.  I am
> trying to determine whether building a custom kernel is supported in
> suse.  I already found words to the contrary on redhat's site.  But I
> cannot find any explicit verbage on this subject for suse.  Does anyone
> know if it's supported to build a custom kernel on a suse enterprise
> box?
>
> Carlos Konstanski
>
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 10:40:25PM -0600, Carlos Konstanski wrote:
> > The fact that a suse box can be updated from a publically-accessible
> > repository warms my heart to it considerably.
>
> Absolutely; not being able to do network installs and updates would
> irritate me no end and I'd run a different distro.
>
> > If this is true, [...]
>
> I just verified the kernel.org url I gave:
>
>   http://mirrors.kernel.org/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1/inst-source/
>
> works as a yast source (I'd been using a private mirror), both for the
> gui and for command line package installs via yast -i by installing
> some packages I had neglected to grab (how could I not have installed
> nethack?!??! The horror!).
>
> Note that yast treats updates as a seperate source from the
> initial installation, though you add them as an installation
> source in the smae location. So for the kernel.org mirror, you'd add
> http://mirrors.kernel.org/suse/update/10.1/ as an installation source.
> (And then you'll wait a while. the libzypp backend in 10.1 is really
> hideous, though getting better. I'm hoping it'll be much improved
> in 10.2.)
>
> If your 10.1 installation is fresh, you'll probably want to do an
> update cycle a couple of times; the first thing it will try to update
> is yast/zypp itself, and then the update tool will want to restart.
>
> On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 10:55:30PM -0600, Carlos Konstanski wrote:
> > Thank you for this info.  I suspected foul play.  I do not have the suse
> > box in front of me here; I will have to wait until tomorrow 9 am to see
> > if this helps.
>
> Note that yast will use an ncurses interface and so can be run through
> an ssh session; there's no requirement to be in front of the box to
> configure it.
>
> You definitely will want to read the using suse 10.1 page at
> http://en.opensuse.org/Using_10.1 .
>
> --
> Steve Beattie
> SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
> <sbeattie at suse.de>
> http://NxNW.org/~steve/
>
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