vanilla-kernel

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 22.05.2008 10:37, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le Jeu 22 mai 2008 10:24, Thorsten Leemhuis a écrit :
> 
>> Dave, what's the status of the "precompiled vanilla kernel rpms" for
>> Fedora?
> It would be mightily useful to have regular pre-built vanilla and
> linux-next fedora rpms available in a well-known repo. Often one
> reports kernel bugs, and then upstream asks vanilla/linux-next
> re-tests when you do not have a few free hours to invest in a custom
> kernel rebuild (yes it can be a few hours when you have to figure what
> changed in kernel build procedures upstream and what changed in the
> fedora kernel spec during the same period)

+1 -- the reasons why it's good to have one where in fact discussed 
months ago and there was an agreement to ship them somewhere (¹) -- 
that's why I didn't mention the reasons again in my mail ;-)

But you bring up another good point: having linux-next available as well 
  a pre-compiled rpm might be a nice to have as well -- Andrew iirc some 
weeks ago expressed that he would like to see something like that.

Sure, -next is not of use for many people, but for some people (like me) 
it might be a "okay, if I get them pre-compiled I'll test them as it's 
way easier to do so". Of course if errors show up everything gets more 
complicated when it comes to debugging -- but that's imho not a reasons 
not to ship a -next RPM.

CU
knurd


(¹) -- which never happened afaik, hence my mail