[CentOS-devel] there's something happened between kernel 2.6.28-128.1.1 and 2.6.18-128.1.6 compilation

Mon Apr 20 00:21:30 UTC 2009
Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com>

On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Farkas Levente <lfarkas at lfarkas.org> wrote:
> hi,
> it seems there should happened something with centos build system
> between kernel 2.6.28-128.1.1 and 2.6.18-128.1.6 compilation. because
> although the two spec files only differs with a few dozen of patches the
> resulted src.rpm are different ie:
> -----------------------------------------
> # rpm -qp --requires kernel-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5.src.rpm | grep unifdef
> unifdef
> # rpm -qp --requires kernel-2.6.18-128.1.6.el5.src.rpm | grep unifdef
> #
> -----------------------------------------
> and this small differences means the latest kernel can't be compiled in
> mock.
> what's more the same is not true for rhel's kernel ie. in case of rhel's
> 2.6.18-128.1.6 it gives unifdef. so it's a centos bug and with this bug
> centos don't follow upstream behavior.
> just my 2c.

I believe CentOS kernels are built using mock.  In any event, I was
able to build kernel-2.6.18-128.1.6.el5 from the CentOS srpm without
an issue.  What errors did you get?

Akemi