Re: Ipv6 for the content provider

[Lamar Owen <lowen () pari edu>]

On Monday, January 31, 2011 01:29:18 pm Randy McAnally wrote:
> The solution is to manually build your own kernel from a vanilla source, along
> with all the problems that entails.

There's also the RH eMRG rt kernel which is built on substantially newer sources.  You'll need to rebuild it yourself 
(make an RPM build tree, do rpm -i on the source RPM, rpmbuild -ba on the specfile):
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Server/en/RHEMRG/SRPMS/kernel-rt-2.6.33.7-rt29.47.el5rt.src.rpm

Then you have a kernel that has those newer features and has the integration testing with the other versions of 
packages installed on the system; using the yum local install, you can get automatic depsolving, too, just in case it 
has odd dependencies.

Or you could get the newer Oracle kernel built for Oracle's RHEL rebuild.  Vanilla isn't always best.  Sometimes you 
want chocolate, or butter pecan.  Some might joke that RHEL's kernel is rocky road..... and others might call it 
heavenly hash.

Either way, it can be had for CentOS 5 without a whole lot of pain, and in a package system friendly manner.