Compiling my own kernel that is exactly like the one fedora distributed...

[Christopher Ness]

On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 16:33, Brian Anderson wrote:
> by going back and adding ext3 into the kernel, but my question is:  why 
> do I need to do this?  I
> copied the distribution config, shouldn't everything be the same?  
> Shouldn't it work just like the
> distribution, with the only difference being the name and when and where 
> it was built?

Hey Brian,

RedHat applies set of their own patches against vanilla kernel code
(from kernel.org mirrors) before they ship a RPM.  So the short answer
is no.  By compiling your own kernel it will not be the same as one from
RH.

HTH,
Chris
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