[CentOS-devel] 3.18.22 Kernel RPM Contribution to CentOS

[Johnny Hughes]

On 01/19/2016 02:57 AM, gayathri.madda at wipro.com wrote:
> Hi Team,
> 
>  
> 
> As there was no official Linux kernel RPM   (version 3.18.22) for CentOS
> 7 in any of their distribution versions, we have customized spec file
> for creating 3.18.22 kernel RPM for CentOS-7 Minimal version by taking
> 3.18.12 kernel spec file
> 
>  
> 
> STEPS for Generating Kernel RPM
> 
> 1.Downloaded the latest 3.18.22 kernel source code “linux-3.18.22.tar.gz
> <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/linux-3.18.22.tar.gz>” from
> 
> https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/
> 
> 2.      Customized the 3.18.12 kernel spec file w.r.t 3.18.22 kernel
> SPEC and created RPM for CentOS 7 Minimal Version
> 

For the record, the Virt SIG produces a newer LTS kernel.org kernel for
Xen .. it is currently 3.18.21-17.el7 and lives here:

http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/virt/x86_64/xen/

That kernel will be updated periodically by the Virt SIG.

Thanks,
Johnny Hughes

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