Why was a kernel-2.6.34 pushed to updates that had un-addressed bugs. / Every OS sucks!

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 23:18:00 -0500
John Morris <jmorris at beau.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 2010-09-06 at 23:05 -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> > On Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:23:01 -0500
> > John Morris <jmorris at beau.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > In my case I reported #573135 back in March and stopped taking
> > > kernel updates. In another month or so I'll boot a live USB stick
> > > of F14 and see if the bug was fixed and just didn't get closed.
> > > Then it is either suck it up and run without security fixes or
> > > jump distros.
> > > 
> > 
> > And in the meantime these patches went into the F12 kernel via
> > 2.6.32-stable, but you weren't even checking the updates:
> 
> Sorry everyone, time to vent.
> 
> Bah.  This is why I just blocked kernel updates in the first place.
> Tried updating.... now things are worse due to a bad combination of
> Fedora policy multiplied by my own stupidity.  I KNEW you were
> supposed to make darned sure you were running your favorite kernel
> before letting yum loose. (Don't ask, long story)  That was mistake
> number one.  Number two came when I looked to the backup server and
> found to my horror I fumbled that too, / and /home safely backed up
> but no /boot!  Double crap!
> 
> So now I lost the only kernel package where everything worked.  And of
> course Fedora doesn't have it anymore.  You can pick the original
> package or the current update.  Triple crap!   If anyone has a pointer
> to kernel-2.6.31.12-174.222.x86_64.rpm I'd really appreciate it!
> Google, rpmfind, etc. all come up blank as did manually poking around
> on the Fedora mirrors.

You mean this one:
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=157491
?

...snip screed... 

I'm sorry, I hoped venting helped you, but this is not the way to move
things forward. I'd suggest more help testing, good bug reports... get
involved. Long rambling rant posts are not likely to help... 

kevin
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