How are fedora kernels modified from vanilla kernels

[Giulio Sorrentino]

Douglas Phillipson wrote:

> How are fedora kernels different from kernel.org vanilla kernels?
>
> How are the rpm's made?
>
> Thanks
>
> Doug P

Fedora kernel includes some patch that vanilla kernel hasn't.
The rpms are made from original tarball and a special file (called 
specfile) that includes all informations (dependencies, descriptions, 
patch ecc...): there's a program (called rpmbuild) that processes the 
specfile, patches the sources, compiles it and then builds the rpm.