On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 08:32:34AM -0800, Garrett Holmstrom wrote:
Fedora's patched kernel sources in a git repository and then
include
kernel-2.6.38-1.1.fc15.tar.bz2 in the source RPM instead of vanilla
kernel-2.6.38.tar.bz2 and fifty patches. Red Hat appears to do this
with RHEL 6's kernel, but their kernel repository is not
publicly-accessible.
RHEL also never rebases, which means their git tree is virtually linear.
While I can see how this might make things a bit easier, it can
obscure
what commits are Fedora-specific as they are lost in the sea of the
upstream kernel's commits, making me firmly against the proposal.
Correct, look at, for instance, what Ubuntu's git tree looks like during
a release, it's an utter mess of merges and local commits.
There are advantages to both, with a low patch count, I'm happy with the
workflow we have now.
--Kyle