Re: [Q]: Linux and real device drivers

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl)
Sun, 26 Sep 1999 14:33:49 -0400

Nat Lanza <magus@cs.cmu.edu> said:
> Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@cern.ch> writes:
> > However, upgrading an older system to a 2.2 compatible level, Red Hat
> > in fact released the necessary RPMS - so the problem is non existant.

> Surprisingly enough, not everyone uses Redhat.

And even more surprisingly, the required bare packages have been bundled
somewhere else too. And you certainly can get one of a number of rpm2cpio
scripts and unpack the whole RPMS/SRPMS wherever you want. SRPMs contain the
original sources plus patches and a SPEC file with configuration/compilation
instructions.

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