On 11/02/2011 09:35 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
There is the Oracle "unbreakable" Linux (or whatever they call it), which is a RHEL clone. The recent RH packaging changes are aimed squarely at that distro from what I understand. The problem is that the changes affect *all* clones the same way, including CentOS.
To what changes are you referring?
As far as I know, the only packaging change in RHEL 6 is that the source in the kernel SRPM is now one big tarball, rather than an upstream tarball and a bunch of separate patches.
This shouldn't have any effect on anyone who is simply rebuilding the SRPM. (I just tested this by successfully building the latest kernel SRPM from ftp://ftp.redhat.com in mock's epel-6-i386 chroot on my Fedora system.)
Is there another change of which I'm unaware?
(Full disclosure: I do work for Red Hat, but I don't speak for the company. Heck, I don't even speak for myself; my wife does that.)