On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 06:52:41AM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
On 29.08.2007 21:05, Dave Jones wrote:
> I'd like to move forward on us getting vanilla builds out for testers.
I'm willing to help here if there is anything I can do.
> There are a couple things worth thinking about, which I'd like other
> peoples thoughts on.
>
> * The location of the binaries - I think we ended up settling
> on putting them on
people.fedoraproject.org.
My vote is still to ship them in the proper repos -- an idea lot of
people liked in last weeks discussion here. But people feared the space
requirements. But that's a problem on p.f.o as well afaics.
Nearly everyone else I've talked to about this seems to be
against that idea for whatever reasons.
> * how/where to building them.
> AFAIK, it isn't possible to pass switches like --with-vanilla
> to koji, so the two options are..
> - build vanilla as part of the regular build
> (not a great idea, it already takes hours to build
> a complete set of kernels).
How about a different package kernel-vanilla in CVS that can be build
independently of the normal build?
This means committing rebases to >1 place, which sounds like losing.
It doesn't really bring any advantages either afaics.
> [...]
> * dependancies.
> This is the only remaining technical puzzle I think.
> I'd like the vanilla rpms to install on FC6, F7, and rawhide.
> Doing separate builds per distro is just going to kill me.
But often needed, as people otherwise often can't build kernel modules
theirselfs, as GCC doesn't match (it does currently iirc, but often
there are different major versions of gcc in the different distros.
3rd party modules for kernel-vanilla brings up an interesting question.
For bugs found in kernel-vanilla, I want *everything* to go to
linux-kernel or
bugzilla.kernel.org. If reports there contain
any out-of-tree modules, they'll get closed out no questions asked.
AFAIAC, 3rd party modules are even less supportable on -vanilla
than they are on the regular fedora kernel.
For the minority that can't live without 3rd party modules, they
can build their own kernels, because building a full set of kernels
for each distro is time consuming enough that I only want to do
this once.
Dave
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