Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 1 Aug 2000 22:44:29 +0200 | From | Jakub Jelinek <> | Subject | Re: Good luck when RedHat 7.0 comes out (was RE: test5 oops after kswapd)... |
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On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 11:47:47AM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 12:54:07PM -0700, jeff@ntcor.com wrote: > > > A week ago I installed Redhat Rawhide on my machine to check it out. > > > Everything seems to work fine. Except... Kernel compilations. > > > > > > Since Redhat 7.0beta just hit the mirrors I'm betting all of my kernel > > > problems are all of the sudden going to become a wide spread problem. > ---- > I may be out in left field, but my idea of a thorough development > and release process would be to take all the tools one just built and > use those to produce a 3rd generation. Then take those tools and produce > a 4th generation. If 3rd!=4th (subtracting out time/date stamps) then > it would seem something is wrong -- or am I missing something? > > Now that whole process would be automated and if the 3rd and 4th compare, > then kick off the automated test suites. > > Maybe RedHat doesn't use a thorough source and release methodology > for their Beta's?
No, we of course build the whole distribution with the tools we provide. The thing is we provide a special compiler for kernel compilations (kgcc) and build kernels with it.
Jakub
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