On 03/05/2011 10:10 AM, Ibidem wrote:
On Fri, 04 Mar 2011 22:07:55 -0400
Herb Thompson<[email protected]> wrote:
Just curious. Does this change in the way Red Hat "publishes" kernel
patches have any adverse consequences for SL?
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2011/03/04/red_hat_twarts_oracle_and_novell_with_change_to_source_code_packaging/
No. It's only relevant if you have to patch the RHEL kernel sources,
like Oracle does. Scientific Linux (and standard CentOS) kernels are
not modified, as patched kernels could (at least in theory) result in
less than complete compatibility. There was a little discussion
already, in the SL6 release announcement thread.
I just want to second what Ibidem wrote.
We do not modify the kernel that comes from the RedHat for RHEL, in any
of our releases. We download the source rpm from their public ftp site,
and recompile it without changing it.
We have checked our recompiled kernel binaries for Scientific Linux 6
against the binaries from RHEL 6. They are a perfect match and are
completely compatible, as far as we can tell.
RedHat's change in packaging their kernel source does not affect
Scientific Linux at all.
Troy Dawson
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