recompiling kernel for centos 4.2 x86_64

[mailing-lists at hughesjr.com (Johnny Hughes)]

On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 13:10 -0800, Fong Vang wrote:
> On 1/19/06, Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 10:42:39AM -0800, Fong Vang wrote:
> > > I'm trying to add the xfs and reiserfs module (the centosplus kernel
> > > package has an unsupported which I don't want to use).
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> > Guess what ? Your custom kernel is also unsupported.
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> But my changes will be minimal and can be easily documented/explained
> to management.  If it shows up with unsupported in the name, a lot of
> people will be alarmed.  I wish we could call it something else --
> perhaps "plus" or "extended" instead of "unsupported".
> 

I didn't really pick the name ... that is what it is called in RHEL
3 ... I just carried the concept over into CentOS-4 from CentOS-3.

And it is called unsupported precisely for the reason that you don't
like ... because it should not be considered stable or supported :)
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