Bill Davidsen wrote:
Please read this entire question before giving me the obvious answer...
Is there any way to get the actual source to the binary kernels
available? What koji has as source is the kernel.org source, STABLE
patch, and dozens of patches with no way to tell which are applied to
any given binary kernel before it's built, and in what order.
I poked about on koji trying to find the list of patches in order, but
had no success.
Example:
Binary kernel-PAE-2.6.27.7-53.fc9.i686.rpm
Source kernel-2.6.27.7-53.fc9.src.rpm
Is there some way to get the list of patches needed to build this
kernel? I sure couldn't find any way to get a clean application of even
the ext4 patch sets, so I could do some testing.
Is this information deliberately restricted or just never made available?
The best bet is to download and install the Fedora-specific kernel
source RPM. Have a good look at the /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/kernel.spec
file. In it will be listed the various patches made to the baseline
kernel source required for that build (specifically, look for lines
that begin "PatchXXXX" where "XXXX" is a decimal number).
Remember, the spec file is what guides rpmbuild to create the actual
source tree in your /usr/src/redhat/BUILD directory.
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