CentOS

[Trevor Astrope]

I've patched the rhel 3 kernel with speakup before. It is a bit tricky, 
since Red Hat backports security and bug fixes, as well as some features 
from newer kernels to the rhel kernel, but it is possible.

The way I did it was to do an rpm -bp on the kernel rpm, then make a 
backup copy of it and try and patch speakup against it. The patch will 
likely fail in places, so you will need to apply the failed hunks 
manually. Then make a patch against the copy and your speakup modified 
tree and include the patch in the spec file and rebuild.

Or it might be easier to try one of the speakup patches from a speakup 
modified fedora kernel srpm. If you're lucky, it might just work out of 
the box.

On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Dawes, Stephen wrote:

> Has anyone ported speakup to CentOS? For those of you who don't know,
> CentOS is a RedHat product. (Basically the enterprise version without
> support) CentOS is extremely stable, and does not come out with new
> versions at the same speed as Fedora does. (Fedora, another RedHat
> product.)
>
> I am interested in a Centos install if it can be considered as a
> candidate for speakup, and all the other accessibility offerings found
> in fedora.
>
>
>
> Steve Dawes
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> Email: SDawes at calgary.ca
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