Announcing the rawhide kernel nodebug repository

Justin M. Forbes jmforbes at linuxtx.org
Thu Nov 8 19:34:13 UTC 2012


On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 07:30:53PM +0100, Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 11:02 -0600, Justin M. Forbes 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. 
> > 
> > Bugs against this kernel should be filed in bugzilla against the rawhide
> > kernel. Any questions or comments about the repository itself should be
> > sent to the kernel at lists.fedoraproject.org list.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Could this be documenting somewhere on the wiki as well?
> Just so that someone can easily find it by a quick google search for
> 'fedora rolling kernel' or so.

Indeed it is on the wiki as of this morning:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RawhideKernelNodebug

This links directly from the kernel page as well.
It has also been submitted to LWN, and appears on the planet.

Justin


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