[PLUG] Redhat ES 4

dan at fiddlers-green.info dan at fiddlers-green.info
Mon Oct 31 19:36:57 UTC 2005


Quoting "Jason R. Martin" <nsxfreddy at gmail.com>:

> On 10/28/05, Steve D... <blitters at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 10/28/05, dan at fiddlers-green.info <dan at fiddlers-green.info> wrote:
> > >
> > > I was wondering if anyone encountered a make problem when building a
> kernel with
> > > redhat ES/FC4, and if they have gotten around it?
> > >
> > > I saw some references in message boards saying that redhat has broken the
> kernel
> > > source tree to keep you from recompiling the kernel. Has anyone found a
> way
> > > around this?
> >
> >   It's not really broken.  I just won't compile.  :-)
> >
> >   My understanding is that the RedHat licenced offerings include
> > non-GPL secret-sauce in the kernel.  The non-GPL files are removed
> > when the GPL portions of the source are posted on their web site.  The
> > GPL code won't compile without the non-GPL code or extensive code
> > cleanup.
> 
> That is completely bogus.  I have successfully recompiled the RHEL4
> (AS) kernel from the .src.rpm in the past by extracting it with
> rpmbuild and then building it just like any other kernel.  To suggest
> that they have non-GPL code in their kernels is just FUD.  Take a look
> around, you'll notice the RedHat kernel engineers are the most
> violently anti-binary kernel module people (such as nVidia).
> 
> Stop spreading this crap.
> 
> Jason
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I need to correct myself. The kernel-devel packages replaced kernel-sources,
rather than the .src.rpm. 

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