All previous rh70 kernels included the ip-masq-vpn patch: 2.2.16-22 with a glitch 2.2.17-14 with the glitch solved The latest errata 2.2.19 kernel lacks the patch. Why?
Some weird things: 1) look at kernel-2.2.19-i686.config (or the others too), it contains CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE_PPTP=m 2) rpm -bp SPECS/kernel-2.2.spec cp SOURCES/kernel-2.2.19-i686.config BUILD/linux/.config cd BUILD/linux make menuconfig -> then just exit and save diff ../../SOURCES/kernel-2.2.19-i686.config .config PPTP is taken out, and there are a lot of other differences, why? Which is the correct config file used by the src.rpm? You intentionally use oldconfig_nonint to do a brute force oldconfig for this reason?
Our config files often have options for which the patch is not always applied (eg even if there is no ext3 patch in the 2.2.19 kernel, the ext3 option might be there). > You intentionally use > oldconfig_nonint to do a brute force oldconfig for this reason? No. oldconfig_nonint is there to gather all "missing" options and print them out in a list and then bail out. It's much more efficient for us to do that during development than to wait an hour for every missing option (when upgrading a kernel).
Patch is added for the next build, for if/when we decide to make a new erratum kernel available.