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Technical (Development, Security, etc.) => Unix / Linux Discussion => Topic started by: Ergot on November 05, 2005, 03:36:22 PM

Title: Slackware kernel update
Post by: Ergot on November 05, 2005, 03:36:22 PM
Which packages do I get to upgrade to 2.4.31 ? I don't see a kernel-generic :/
Title: Re: Slackware kernel update
Post by: iago on November 05, 2005, 04:00:51 PM
It's there a package in group a for it?  I forget what it's called, though..

Aha:
ncftp> pwd
  ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/a/
ncftp> ls kernel*
kernel-ide-2.4.31-i486-1.tgz           kernel-modules-2.4.31-i486-1.tgz
kernel-ide-2.4.31-i486-1.tgz.asc       kernel-modules-2.4.31-i486-1.tgz.asc
kernel-ide-2.4.31-i486-1.txt           kernel-modules-2.4.31-i486-1.txt
ncftp ...re-current/slackware/a >


The next question is; why?
Title: Re: Slackware kernel update
Post by: Ergot on November 05, 2005, 04:13:13 PM
Why not ^_^ ?
So kernel-generic isn't needed :O? cool.
Title: Re: Slackware kernel update
Post by: iago on November 05, 2005, 06:08:55 PM
I think kernel-generic and kernel-ide provide the same function.  Untar them and see, if you want (tar -tvvzf)
Title: Re: Slackware kernel update
Post by: Ergot on November 05, 2005, 07:32:46 PM
hmm.. then what about headers ?
Title: Re: Slackware kernel update
Post by: iago on November 05, 2005, 08:54:27 PM
Beats me.  Search the folders for headers?

Title: Re: Slackware kernel update
Post by: Ergot on November 05, 2005, 09:33:39 PM
Quote from: iago on November 05, 2005, 08:54:27 PM
Beats me.  Search the folders for headers?


I did that matie ^_^ I didn't come up with anything so I'm curious if it's necessary ...
Title: Re: Slackware kernel update
Post by: iago on November 05, 2005, 09:48:54 PM
*shrug* I'm not really sure. 

You could probably set up a little script to search for .tgz files containing the correct files.