[CentOS] CentOS Kernel Support

Thu Jun 14 16:12:35 UTC 2018
Alice Wonder <alice at domblogger.net>

On 06/14/2018 08:00 AM, Peter Kjellström wrote:
> 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

Yes that's why I said somewhere.
At least in the past there have been people who made their own mirrors 
of RHEL exclusive source packages (which the GPL allows).

I don't know who does now, but someone somewhere probably does.