[TriLUG] sharing kernel source trees?

Donald Ball trilug@trilug.org
Sun, 4 Nov 2001 16:35:29 -0500 (EST)


On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, Kevin - The Alchemist - Sonney wrote:

> I have several machines here at the house :
> moltress, a PPro 200 and my firewall
> eevee, a DEC Multia Alpha
> pikachu, a P3 600
> snorlax, a Toshiba techra 8000
>
> Now, at the moment, if I want to update them all to the latest kernel,
> I download the source onto moltress, untar it on all four systems, and
> do the make tasks.
>
> I'm wondering, though, is it possible to use a shared source tree and
> a symlink to .config for all of these systems?

why not just compile the kernels on the fastest machine for all of them?

- donald