24 Jul
2003
24 Jul
'03
11:47 p.m.
From looking at
the date I'd guess it comes from up2date, which is
included in planet.
yeah, but you can't use up2date on a machine not connected to the
internet. so a machine configured without being updated (i.e. not
really 8.0 anymore) doesn't have glibc 2.3. i supposed RH are defining
8.0 as "8.0 plus any updates we say are part of 8.0 ...". sigh. i rebuilt the RPMs from nando's SRPMs.
and now i just found out that i have a brand new Hammerfall DSP with a
revision number not recognized by the driver. this means i would have
to install the entire kernel source RPM (27MB!) from the planet, plus
the alsa kernel SRPM, edit the source code, and then rebuild ALSA (you
can't rebuild ALSA without the relevant kernel source installed). sigh
again, doubled.
Welcome to the club! (of people rebuilding things for the nth time and
saying "sigh"...)
still, at least i can justify being paid to do this :)
and i have to
say that the Linux Audio Systems splash screens for Grub and for GDM
look pretty nice! i get a warm feeling inside seeing these things on
such a superb machine :)
i guess i should get it connected to the net, and run up2date as well,
eh?
Or point to the Planet CCRMA repository and get the updates from there.
All the same.
-- Fernando