On 19 Jan 2016 12:58, "Nico Kadel-Garcia" nkadel@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 3:57 AM, gayathri.madda@wipro.com wrote:
Hi Team,
As there was no official Linux kernel RPM (version 3.18.22) for
CentOS 7
in any of their distribution versions, we have customized spec file for creating 3.18.22 kernel RPM for CentOS-7 Minimal version by taking
3.18.12
kernel spec file
I will warn you that kernel updates of a production grade operating sytem like RHEL, upstream, takes one heck of a lot more testing than just "use new tarball". It needs to run through quite a large regression test suite, to make sure that old fixes and patches are customizations are correctly applied, and it doesn't break anything critical, and ideally that it provides a worthwhile upgrade.
Not to mention that's still not the current LTS 3.18 release which is presently up to 3.18.25 ...
So just as last time you posted this I ask of you - how are you planning to maintain this? You are obviously not backporting anything given those instructions for use...
This can lead to critical security issues (for example see today's announcement of CVE-2016-0728) which would leave people vulnerable if using your spec and instructions.