On Wed, 29 Jun 2011, Steven Haigh wrote: >> which has the kernel, presently a: >> kernel-2.6.32-71.29.1.el6.xendom0.src.rpm > From what I understand, and I'm happy to be corrected here if I'm wrong, the > kernels mayoung does are the RHEL kernel with specific Xen patches applied. I > believe this is different to the xen kernel at > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen.git Prolly different, but as I recall you were having .spec file and build issues at the start. Packaging the kernel is one of the more difficult packaging exercises because of the profusion of options one may choose to select, modularize, or omit, and then also apply or not both backported patches and local fork patches Last time I heard a number bandied about, there were in excess of thirty folks on Red Hat's kernel team, so a single person coming to packaging might do well to 'crib' from the work of another at the start > It also seems to lag behind somewhat. The current EL6 kernel is > 2.6.32-131.2.1, whereas mayoung has only patched up until 2.6.32-71.29.1 as > you rightly posted. As you don't indicate what ill effect of lagging behind is in play, I cannot evaluate what you are concerned about, of course. The latest is not always the greatest. Sometimes it is just a later version with new bugs to bite. That said, pluging in a new tarball, and commenting out non-desired or non-applying patches in a .spec file is straightforward enough, once building issues are solved. -- Russ herrold