Niki Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > Usually I'm not one to complain about "old" version of the CentOS kernel > and/or software, since I appreciate CentOS' stability. So this might be > the exception that confirms the rule. It's not the end of the world. I've a server with a whole bunch of various services, running CentOS 5.2 x86_64 and a custom kernel, because the network card is not supported by the original kernel. It's rock solid. > What i naively plan to do: get a kernel SRPM from Fedora 9, try to build > from there, and see where it leads. Nah. Get the vanilla kernel tarball. Apply the mkspec patch. (*) Get the .config file from the CentOS kernel (see /boot). Use that config file to do a "make oldconfig" in the vanilla kernel source tree. This will import most settings from the original CentOS kernel. Now do a "make menuconfig" and peruse the config items. Make sure it's not missing important stuff. Now do "make rpm". Voila, you've got a kernel rpm that's pretty similar to CentOS, only newer. (*) - without the mkspec patch, the rpm will be pretty generic. The CentOS/Redhat kernel rpm has a few more features that you need. This patch adds them. See the file attached to this message. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: mkspec.patch URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080917/1f3edafd/attachment-0004.ksh>