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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