Re: redhat 9 berkley db errors

On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 11:51:27AM +0200, Tobias Ringström wrote:
> Does anyone here know if RedHat plan to fix this, or if it is supposed
> to be really hard to run vanilla kernels with RedHat 9? (If I had known
> this before, I would not have "upgraded" my server.)

I don't think running "vanilla" kernals has ever been an explicitly
endorsed path for Red Hat users. NPTL is just the most visible thing
that's different; there's a lot of little things that have gone into
the RH kernels in the past that weren't in mainstream (I was bitten
by the software raid on-disk format differences in the 7.x line, and
I remember there being some differences between mainline and RH with
some of the autofs stuff).

If you *really* want a newer kernel release for some reason, grab the
latest SRPM from Red Hat, and work through applying the patches to a
newer kernel (or getting the newest version of those particular patches
instead). It's a long process trying to merge everything and get a
working kernel, but it's the most likely route to producing a reliable
system. Or, just stick with what Red Hat ships with releases and their
errata packages. ;-)

-- 
Edward S. Marshall <esm@logic.net>
http://esm.logic.net/
Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.
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