Keep the FC6 kernel at 2.6.20 or move it to 2.6.21?

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Thu Apr 19 16:26:23 UTC 2007


On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 05:08:29PM +0100, Chris Brown wrote:
 > > On 18.04.2007 23:23, Dave Jones wrote:
 > > > On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 01:47:55PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
 > > >  > I'd say let F7 testing iron out 2.6.21 for a while before deciding
 > > about
 > > >  > FC6.  We should be in the part of freeze where serious Fedora weenies
 > > are
 > > >  > doing a lot of testing.
 > > > Getting 2.6.21 into FC6 does also have the additional advantage that
 > > > it's an extra round of testing for what will become the F7 kernel.
 > >
 > > +1 -- putting in in updates-testing quite soon might be a start.
 > 
 > 
 > +1 for moving it straight into updates for reasons already stated plus isn't
 > a kernel upgrade dependent on user confirmation? I have always felt for this
 > reason that updates-testing is not the right place for testing kernels as
 > the installonlyn plugin for yum ensures that a backup kernel (hopefully
 > stable) is always available.

I usually recommend at least 1 day in updates-testing, if only to catch
any *really* stupid bugs.  A few times I've been hit by dumb packaging thinkos
and even a few 'doesnt boot' bugs which were blindingly obvious after testing.
Especially the older hardware, which I don't test as much these days.

updates-testing doesn't get the level of feedback that I'd like to see,
but I think this is largely because a lot of people don't know it's there.
If firstboot had a "would you like to test experimental updates?" dialog,
we may find we get a lot more feedback.  Well,.. I can dream.

	Dave

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