[CentOS] CentOS Kernel Support

Peter Kjellström cap at nsc.liu.se
Thu Jun 14 15:00:08 UTC 2018


On Thu, 14 Jun 2018 16:26:27 +0200
Gianluca Cecchi <gianluca.cecchi at gmail.com> wrote:
...
> > > The src.rpm for that kernel is probably available somewhere.  
> >
> > I'm fairly certain you cannot download the SRPM for EUS kernels.
> > You might if you're a Red Hat customer paying for that product (but
> > don't take my word for it).
...
> I agree for the format of release (SRPM), but in any case Red Hat
> should provide the sources for the changes, as the kernel is GPL-2.0
> Then one can manually try to merge them in a patched kernel in some
> way... Gianluca

Redhat of course complies with the GPL and provide source to the
customers that get access to the binary packages. They are not required
to provide the sources to anyone else.

/Peter



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