Kernel snapshots and kernel versions

Fernando Apesteguía fernando.apesteguia at gmail.com
Wed Nov 7 13:16:23 UTC 2007


On 11/7/07, Fernando Apesteguía <fernando.apesteguia at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/7/07, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > Fernando Apesteguía wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I this video:
> > > http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1742374580386548257&q=andrew+morton+linux+kernel&total=3&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0
> > >
> > > Andrew Morton talks about some aspects of the linux kernel. Near the
> > > end of the video, he talks about how to contribute and he says that
> > > both Fedora and Open Suse provide -linus snapshots of the kernel.
> > >
> > > I couldn't find this snapshots. Could any of you point me to the proper place?
> >
> > Fedora tends to follow upstream quickly so the new releases of the
> > kernel are available in the standard repository. The development
> > repository (Rawhide) would have the latest snapshots. Also refer
> >
> > http://people.redhat.com/davej/
> >
> > > My second question is: How far are the Fedora kernels from the
> > > equivalent Vanilla ones? Andrew says it's okay to use Fedora/Open Suse
> > > kernels to report problems. Does this means that these kernels are
> > > very close to the vanilla version?
> >
> > Yes or atleast that's the goal.
> >
> > http://kernelslacker.livejournal.com/85039.html
> >
> > This is not just for the kernel but for the entire distribution on the
> > whole.
> >
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/WhyUpstream
> >
> > Rahul
>
> Thanks for the information and for the links. I'll have a look to them.
>
> Cheers

As a related question, I would like to know it it is possible to
install a vanilla kernel in Fedora without big problems. By big
problems I mean module loading problems (kernel version doesn't match,
etc..) and those things.

And taking into account that Fedora recommends to install the kernel
as a "normal" rpm package, is there any guide or howto to know how to
build an rpm from a vanilla kernel?

I saw the vanilla directory inside the BUILD directory when the kernel
sources are installed. Can I do something with that? Maybe comment out
the patch sections in the spec file to create a vanilla rpm package?

Thanks in advance

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