Re: Emulate RHEV On CentOS - A note on Xen v. KVM

Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> · Wed, 7 Sep 2011 10:31:56 -0500

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 10:17 AM, William Hooper <whooperhsd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> Perhaps a silly question, but why maintain patches ? Why not compile a
>> new version and discard all the patches ? Patches are a messy manner to
>> maintain programmes.
>
> For the same reason that Red Hat uses patches to back port security
> updates and functionality into the kernel, httpd, and most of the
> other packages in RHEL.

I thought that was no longer true for the 6.x kernel.

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  Les Mikesell
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