[Fwd: Testing the Current Upstream Kernel]

[Dave Jones]

On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 07:05:35AM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
 > On 16.08.2007 19:27, Dave Jones wrote:
 > > On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 06:59:29PM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
 > >  >  * in the proper repo
 > > Hmm. This would be great, but I think we may get some pushback on this
 > > one. (Especially as kernel rpms are so big).
 > 
 > Just wondering: What's "big" here round about? We are talking about
 > round about 20 - 21 MByte per kernel (kernel + devel) afaics; would we
 > ship all flavors (PAE) as vanilla? Maybe most, but not all (xen for
 > example).

No xen, correct.

 > Ohh, sorry, I forgot the debuginfo packages. Ouch, they are 200 MByte in
 > size. Well, that becomes a problem

Yeah, that's the elephant in the room.

 > > I'm thinking that a repo on people.fedoraproject.org is probably
 > > the best of the bunch.
 > 
 > Which has a 150**MByte Quota iirc -- so you can't ship the debuginfo
 > stuff there either. And non of the other Kernels that you ship via your
 > p.r.c stuff (well, as long as you don't get more space offered, which I
 > assume might be possible).

p.r.c doesn't have a huge quota either. (Which is why the repos
I have there now don't have debuginfo either).

	Dave

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