Sergio Belkin wrote:
2009/8/27 Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org:
Sergio Belkin wrote:
2009/8/27 Filipe Brandenburger filbranden@gmail.com:
Hi,
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 12:46, Sergio Belkinsebelk@gmail.com wrote:
Jim, thanks for the suggestion, but Firstly: I need a newer kernel in order to get IO statistics from tools like atop, pidstat, etc. And secondly and most important: my boss wants that :)
Then CentOS is not what you want.
There is a reason why RHEL/CentOS does not ship with the latest kernel (and other components) and backports fixes instead. It's not trivial to make different versions of these components work together. If you try to replace the kernel (or other core components) you will see how painful it is. In fact, you started to see it already. You may try to continue to go that way, but I doubt anyone in this list will be able to help you there... you're pretty much on your own.
So I'd be glad to hear other kind of solution :)
Look at the latest Fedora or Ubuntu or another one of the "cutting edge" distributions that ship with more recent versions of components.
Or ask yourself (or your boss) *WHY* you think you really need a later version of a certain component. What is your real problem? Is it support to a certain hardware? Is it network related? Is it (unfounded) fear that the kernel in CentOS might be vulnerable? It might be possible to solve your problem using CentOS in another way, if you come back to the list with the real problem we might be able to help you better.
HTH, Felipe
I've just explained the reason why I've compiled.
Let me try it a different way.
The current kernel used by Red Hat in RHEL 4 is a 2.6.9-x kernel and it has 1973 patches. The one currently in use in RHEL 5 is a 2.6.18-x kernel with 2882 patches.
Many packages are compiled against kernel-headers and depend on the proc structure that is there.
SELinux is just one of many issues you will have if you try to use a main line kernel on CentOS. You will need to have several of the Red Hat patches (modified to work with the new kernel tree) incorporated in order to use a newer kernel on CentOS.
If you absolutely have to have a newer kernel (you should not do this ... but hey, it IS your machine) ... then instead of trying to use a main line kernel, instead try to use the latest one from here:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Server/en/RHEMRG/SRPMS/
This kernel has been tested for use with RHEL-5 and is 2.6.24-x.
You still might have issues, but they should be far fewer than running a main line kernel on CentOS.
Would you, if you boss told you he wanted you to, try to make the Windows Vista system files run on Windows 95?
Thanks, Johnny Hughes
Thanks for provide the more smart and constructive answer so far.
On ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Server/en/RHEMRG/SRPMS/ I've only found kernel-rt, are they real time kernels?
Yes, those are real time kernels.