From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>
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To: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kdesu broken
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:19:19 -0400
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On Wednesday 29 July 2009, Frans Pop wrote:
>On Wednesday 29 July 2009, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> Yes, some of it will.  But thanks to fedora's broken disk partitioner,
>> something I've been screaming about for a damned decade, my /boot
>> partition isn't big enough to absorb a whole chain of those, hence the
>> fixed version request.
>
>My /boot isn't big enough for a full series either, but my $HOME is :-)
>
>The fact that the packages I create all have the same package name and
>only the package version differs, means that I do get the complete series
>but only have one version installed in /boot at any time (as installing a
>new version overwrites the version from the previous bisect iteration).
>
>No idea if you can do the same on an RPM-based system easily.

I do not normally use rpms to do that.  My makeit script handles all of that, 
keeping one old version of everything in /boot and /lib/modules that I can 
revert by hand if the new kernel is a showstopper.

Whenever I let rpm get access to my grub.conf, I always have to go back in 
with vim & fix the stanza numbers I keep track of the boots with.  Grub 
doesn't really care, but I do. :)  rpm should be so neat...

Anybody that wants this script (actually there are 2 of them), I can attach 
them, makeit and buildit26 (which unpacks and applies the patches plus running 
a make oldconfig) are about 100 lines each.

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