On 13-07-12 19:48, Aft nix wrote: > I know how yum works. i'm a long time centos user. I'm talking about > the "centos specific patches" for the kernel. Afaik they are not CentOS specific patches. They are Red Hat patches (unless CentOS add additional patches). > if i roll > these patches over vanilla kernel, it will become the kernel source > where kernel rpms are built. Now centos distributes its kernel sources > through src-rpms(srpms). Which is "already patched" kernel source. > What i want is just the patches. so i that i can roll it over vanilla > kernel > and get identical source as those distributed through srpms. Afaik you can't get the individual patches since that is not how Red Hat distributes their kernel src rpm which CentOS rebuilds. So you could ask Red Hat for the individual patches. Good luck with that. They started distributing pre-patched kernel sources to make competitors live (not necessarily CentOS) a bit more difficult. There's a long discussion about this on the Intertubes. Don't have the link anymore so Google is your friend. If all else fails, you could do a diff between the vanilla kernel and the one distributed by Red Hat. Regards, Patrick