On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 2:14 PM Laurențiu Păncescu < lpancescu at centosproject.org> wrote: > > > On 12/28/20 1:30 PM, redbaronbrowser via CentOS-devel wrote: > > In my experience, the prep section of building a kernel always amounts > to less than 1% of the overall build time. There is no time savings by > pre-applying the patches that justifies the lack of time savings. > > This started with RHEL 6, and the likely motivation was to hinder Oracle > Enterprise Linux, not to save build time.[1] According to Wikipedia, > Oracle even provides a service breaking down Red Hat's huge diff from > upstream into individual patches, not sure how effective the Red Hat > approach is, if the goal is indeed to stop OEL.[2, last paragraph] > > [1] > > http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Controversy-surrounds-Red-Hat-s-obfuscated-source-code-release-1200554.html > [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux#Rebuilds > > Going to https://oss.oracle.com/git/gitweb.cgi?p=redpatch.git;a=summary it seems the latest commit is about 3 years ago though.... donna if repository or way of providing individual patches changed in the meantime Gianluca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20201228/3e823eed/attachment-0005.html>