[CentOS] CentOSPlus kernel (Was: Centos 6 Update?)

Fri Apr 8 16:10:53 UTC 2011
Steve Clark <sclark at netwolves.com>

On 04/08/2011 11:35 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 7:16 AM, Steve Clark<sclark at netwolves.com>  wrote:
>> On 04/07/2011 05:14 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote:
>> I have just installed the kernel and will now start testing.
>>
>> Great. Please keep us posted. If the patches work as expected, they
>> will be a worthy addition to the cplus kernel.
>> I got a kernel built with the patches using the wiki and your notes in
>> 0004586 (thanks). I am pleased  to report
>> that they appear to work as advertised. With:
>> net.ipv6.conf.default.forwarding = 2
>> net.ipv6.conf.all.accept_ra = 2
>>
>> Router solicitations were issued and router advertisements were accepted and
>> I could still forward packets.
> Glad to hear things worked. Now that a new c6 kernel update is out, I
> will try and see if I could include the patches to this version (
> 2.6.32-71.24.1 ).
>
>> I didn't make new patches, I simply did
>> %define with_fuzzy_patches 1
> Never used it. Is it "safe" to do that?
>
As a general rule probably not. I did examine the result of the patched files and verified they
looked OK. I guess I could cp'ed the files that were affected, then applied the patch by hand then ran gendiff against the
new and the old to get a new patch, but in the end it is the same thing, other than having to turn on with_fuzzy_patches.
>> Also what should the normal rpmbuild line be?
>> I ended up doing
>> rpmbuild -bb --target=`uname -m` kernel.spec --with firmware --without debug
>> --without debuginfo
>>
>> The first time I didn't have --with firmware and the kernel wouldn't
>> install.
> Yes, C6 kernels require kernel-firmware. I build it with --target noarch.
>
>
Good to know.


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