Karanbir Singh enlightened us:
You should be able to just grab the sources from download.fedora.redhat.com and rebuild ? you might need to update some other core pkgs to satisfy depends tho.
As much as I'm labelled a Fedora proponent, the Fedora kernel is not something I'd run on RHEL/CentOS. There's just too many support/changes. Building a RHEL kernel on Fedora is one thing (which I've done to show that you can build RHEL out of Fedora, with just a few SRPMS from RHEL for kernel, etc...). But going the other way is a whole different ballgame -- Fedora kernels don't take to RHEL systems well.
If you want Fedora features, IMHO, it's best to rebuild from the RHEL/CentOS kernel, patching in what you need -- sparringly -- from the Fedora kernels. Yes, this is involved.
I think Johnny's work on getting a SGI guy on-board is probably the best bet to good XFS support. When Red Hat sees that someone is pro-actively working on solid XFS support for their RHEL kernels, I sincerely hope they take more interest (even if unofficial/unsupported).
I would almost argue that there should be just a RHEL kernel with XFS added, and not everything added. But I am in no position with CentOS' development to suggest such.
Matt Hyclak hyclak@math.ohiou.edu wrote:
I tried this the other day and it builds ok. On install it wanted a bunch of updated SELinux stuff. I started down the path, but the checkpolicy src.rpm refused to build, so I gave up for now.
Yeah, there's just too much different between the Fedora and RHEL kernels.