Re: Aunt Tillie builds a kernel (was Re: ISA hardware discovery -- the elegant solution)

[Alan Cox]

> Really???  Have you ever tried this? RedHat provides a directory
> of random patches that won't patch regardless of the order in
> which you attempt patches (based upon date-stamps on patches or
> date-stamps on files). It's like somebody just copied in some
> junk, thinking nobody would ever bother.

They apply nicely and the spec file defines which to apply and when. The
srpm and rpm are generated together.

I was wondering who would actually need Aunt Tillie's autoconfigurator, now
I know