On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Steve Youngs wrote:
>
> III - A friend of mine tells me that Redhat is a real bitch to patch
the
> kernel source. Because they use a non-standard source-tree the patch
> will not work. Well that was the case with RH 5.?, maybe that's not the
> case now.
>
I installed the SRPM of the kernel source for 2.0.32 on my (nee
slackware 3.4) system, and patched it to 2.0.36 without any problems.
Of course, I didn't use rpm for the whole thing. I am more comfortable
with tar, so when rpm -i --nodeps kernel-2.0.32-2.src.rpm left me with
/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/linux-2.0.32.tar.gz and some patch and spec
files, I was away. The SRPM's always have the _unchanged_ source, plus
the patch files (if any) to make them acceptible to RedHat. If you use
rpm -b, it will have its way with them, but there's nothing to stop you
using tar and make.
I did very much the same thing with glibc-2.0.6, so it's not a fluke.
I take a good natured swat at RedHat every chance I get, but they're
good people, and I certainly don't want to hurt them. :-)
Lawson
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