On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 09:33:20PM +0100, Manuel Moreno wrote: > The one of you saying that ubuntu kernel has more patches than fedora's > > Fedora > ----------- > $ cd /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/ > $ rpm -Uvh ../SRPMS/kernel-2.6.13-1.1529_FC4.src.rpm I assume you mean kernel-2.6.13-1.1529_FC5.src.rpm. > $ ls -l *.patch | wc -l > $ 101 Not all patches in the src.rpm are applied. > Ubuntu > ------- > 16 + 24 = 40 patches Number of patch files is irrelevent. How many actual changes are in those patches? Fedora applied patches: applied=`grep -i ^%patch kernel-2.6.spec \ | awk '{print $1}' \ | sed -e's/^%patch/^Patch/' \ | grep -i -f - kernel-2.6.spec \ | awk '{print $2}'` ls `echo $applied` | wc -l 88 diffstat $applied [...] 817 files changed, 143397 insertions(+), 4911 deletions(-) How many of those changes are bugfixes with a low risk vs. new features? -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list