7 Sep
2011
7 Sep
'11
5:41 p.m.
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 10:17 AM, William Hooper whooperhsd@gmail.com wrote:
Perhaps a silly question, but why maintain patches ? Why not compile a new version and discard all the patches ? Patches are a messy manner to maintain programmes.
For the same reason that Red Hat uses patches to back port security updates and functionality into the kernel, httpd, and most of the other packages in RHEL.
I thought that was no longer true for the 6.x kernel.
The difference is that the kernel tarball provided in the SRPM is a Red Hat kernel, not a vanilla kernel. Just because the patches are not in the SRPM doesn't mean they don't exist.
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William Hooper