# Kpatch and rocky

**URL:** <https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/kpatch-and-rocky/3679>\
**Category:** Rocky Linux Help & Support\
**Created:** [July 31, 2021, 6:34am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/kpatch-and-rocky/3679 "2021-07-31T06:34:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![blank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a4c791/32.png) [@blank](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/blank)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2021, 6:34am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/kpatch-and-rocky/3679/1 "2021-07-31T06:34:26Z")

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I could not find any information about kpatch and Rocky Linux.

Are there plans to support it? What about the patches themselves?

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**Author:** ![jacraig](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/jacraig/32/1069_2.png) [@jacraig](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/jacraig)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2021, 2:52pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/kpatch-and-rocky/3679/2 "2021-07-31T14:52:27Z")

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Both `kpatch` and `kpatch-dnf` are available in the Rocky repos, as they are in the CentOS 8.x repos. At present, however, neither CentOS or Rocky provide pre-packaged RPMs for applying Kernel patches via kpatch.

There are [guides available](http://jhurani.com/linux/2019/10/01/centos8-live-kernel-patching.html) describing how this can be done manually for CentOS 8.x. Presumably those would also work for Rocky?

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**Author:** ![brian](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/brian/32/5777_2.png) [@brian](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/brian)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2023, 4:07am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/kpatch-and-rocky/3679/3 "2023-08-25T04:07:23Z")

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