OK, perhaps I wasnt clear in my previous posting. I am looking for either a SRPM for the CentOS 5.2 centos.plus kernel, or more likely, a diff from the kernel at kernel.org.
I was pointed to the wiki, which MENTIONED a Source RPM, but didnt point to anywhere to find these for CentOS. All Ive been able to find are ISO's .
I really dont need a bunch of tools that will complicate the problem, a simple diff is what Im looking for,- its got to be out there somewhere.
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:57 AM, clemens@dwf.com wrote:
OK, perhaps I wasnt clear in my previous posting. I am looking for either a SRPM for the CentOS 5.2 centos.plus kernel, or more likely, a diff from the kernel at kernel.org.
The SRPM for the CentOS 5.2 centosplus kernel can be found here:
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/centosplus/SRPMS/
Akemi
clemens@dwf.com wrote:
OK, perhaps I wasnt clear in my previous posting. I am looking for either a SRPM for the CentOS 5.2 centos.plus kernel, or more likely, a diff from the kernel at kernel.org.
I was pointed to the wiki, which MENTIONED a Source RPM, but didnt point to anywhere to find these for CentOS. All Ive been able to find are ISO's .
I really dont need a bunch of tools that will complicate the problem, a simple diff is what Im looking for,- its got to be out there somewhere.
note that CentOS kernel SRPMs are /not/ the full kernel source, rather, they are a bunch of patchfiles and scripts that build the kernel from standard sources a specific way..
John R Pierce wrote:
clemens@dwf.com wrote:
OK, perhaps I wasnt clear in my previous posting. I am looking for either a SRPM for the CentOS 5.2 centos.plus kernel, or more likely, a diff from the kernel at kernel.org.
I was pointed to the wiki, which MENTIONED a Source RPM, but didnt point to anywhere to find these for CentOS. All Ive been able to find are ISO's .
I really dont need a bunch of tools that will complicate the problem, a simple diff is what Im looking for,- its got to be out there somewhere.
A "simple diff" from the kernel.org version is not so simple as Red Hat includes a lot of patches and backported fixes in their kernels before CentOS ever sees them.
note that CentOS kernel SRPMs are /not/ the full kernel source, rather, they are a bunch of patchfiles and scripts that build the kernel from standard sources a specific way..
They are the full kernel sources + Red Hat patches + CentOS[plus] mods. For instance kernel-2.6.18-92.1.22.el5.centos.plus.src.rpm has linux-2.6.18.tar.bz2 (the vanilla kernel.org version) plus 1908 patch files (versus 1905 for the standard kernel) plus assorted kernel config files. If I understand correctly the CentOSplus changes involve only config options and patches not used by upstream.
If you want to see what CentOSplus has done to the sources as compared to the standard CentOS kernel (which should be very close to the RHEL kernel), a diff of the installed centosplus kernel SRPM source directory with an install of the SRPM from (for instance) kernel-2.6.18-92.1.22.el5.src.rpm at
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/updates/SRPMS/
will show you.
As Akemi said in response to your first post, your best bet might be to put in a feature request at http://bugs.centos.org/
Phil
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