I don't think it's worth to hack the latest kernel-source package for such an old distro. Not only the compilation problem, but also some basic components like udev won't match with the old system. i know, its still a lot of work to make it fit together...
Any problem with just compiling the kernel by yourself instead of rpm? It will save a lot, really a lot of time, when you adjust the kernel config properly for your own hardware instead of all-build kernel package.
rpm seems the best way to do this. we have still > 1200 machines with suse 8.2 running... i dont want to abdicate rpm's comfort. i think only by strictly using rpm with our own packages for modern software it was possible to let the old distro live to this day. On separate machine it succeeded to get rpm4 for suse 8.2 packaged and so the problematic udev was packaged successfully. Can i trust this rpm4 packages in rpm3 environment? i had some strange dependency warnings at installing the udev but in general the new kernel is up and running... Thanks, Andre -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org