Announcing the rawhide kernel nodebug repository

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Thu Nov 8 17:12:14 UTC 2012


On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 11:02:39 -0600,
   "Justin M. Forbes" <jforbes at redhat.com> wrote:
>It has been discussed in the past that we should have a repository of
>the rawhide kernels with debug turned off to encourage more users to run
>the latest upstream snapshots.  That repository now exists.  You can
>enable it by dropping
>http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/rawhide-kernel-nodebug/fedora-rawhide-kernel-nodebug.repo into /etc/yum.repos.d and doing a yum update.
>This will contain the (almost) daily rawhide updates built with debug
>turned off.

Thanks!

The debug kernels slow down my disk I/O (possibly indirectly as CPU usage 
goes up) which makes yum updates go a lot slower and results in frustration. 
I appreciated the once per RC nodebug kernels, but this should be better.


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