Kernel testing on GA Releases.

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

On 07/02/2013 02:35 PM, Justin M. Forbes wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-07-02 at 10:07 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
>> >I'm not sure if you guys are aware of this but a lot of reporters test
>> >and run development and more recent kernels then those that are
>> >available via the usual GA update mechanism and recent changes [1] which
>> >introduce hard dependency on dracut and systemd versions on kernel
>> >installs are preventing the ability for reporters to either a) enable
>> >fedora-rawhide-kernel-nodebug.repo or b) manually install specific
>> >kernel release from koji and test more recent kernels on already
>> >existing GA releases.
> We are very supportive of this, and frequently point people towards
> rawhide-nodebug. If people don't want to run full rawhide, we would love
> for them to at least run kernel snapshots.
>
>> >If we now have hard dependency's on specific dracut/systemd versions we
>> >need to start looking into sync-ing kernel/dracut/systemd releases
>> >better in GA ( arguably the entire base/core stack but that's a topic
>> >for a later time) or back port the necessary bits that the kernel
>> >install requires into the kernel/systemd/dracut releases in GA.
>> >
> This is a rare instance, and it hit several people.  If I had the option
> of putting the required changes into F17/F18 I would have, but Harald
> did put them in 19 at least.  This is a situation we really prefer to
> avoid, but sometimes there is no other way.

Well this could have in it's most simple form be avoided with F18 
related #ifdef in the kernel.spec.

I pinged Harald in irc about this and he went through dracut changes and 
backported/rebased to 029 [1]
So that takes care of the dracut dependency which leaves out systemd and 
I've pinged Michal but he has been to busy to look into it yet
which leaves out grubby and looking at [2] grubby seems to include only 
fixes and those changes so I dont see why Peter should not be able to 
backport/rebase to 8.26 for F18.

JBG

1. http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=430845
2. https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/grubby.git/log/