Changing the subject line for good ...
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Lamar Owen lowen@pari.edu wrote:
On Thursday, April 07, 2011 11:23:51 AM Brunner, Brian T. wrote:
AIUI: In previous releases, RH distributed source + patches. Starting 6.0 RH releases patched source. This makes backing out a patch, or backporting patches from future development in Fedora (e.g.) far more nightmarish than before.
This one doesn't impact the CentOS core rebuild. It would/could impact CentOSPlus.
Yes, it _could_ affect the centosplus kernel. This point was addressed early on when RHEL-6 was released back in Nov 2010. See:
http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4586
Point 2 (note 12051) is the one that is relevant. I welcome any feedback / suggestions for the proposed method I outlined there. While you are there, look also at the issues described for Point 3 (note 12052). Anyone can help in there as well. :)
So far, "luckily" centosplus kernels are "ahead of" the distro kernel in that they have been built and are available for testing (see note 12502).
Akemi