When are we going to see some newer kernels ?

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:23:32 -0600,
  Linuxguy123 <linuxguy123 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 13:10 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> > 
> > I am running the kernel from F15 on an F14 box and things seem to be working
> > well right now. While that isn't supported in general, if there is something
> > you really want from 2.6.38 it would probably work right now.
> 
> Thanks for sharing that.
> 
> Did you set this up in yum ?   If so, how ?

I have a local repo setup for stuff I pull from koji before it hits
updates-testing, some locally built packages, and some packages targeted
for RHEL that I use at work.

After downloading new rpms from koji, I add them to the repo directory and
then run createrepo on the directory. In /etc/yum.repos.d I add an entry
for the local repo:
[local]
name=Local packages
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/$basearc
h/os/
#mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=rawhide&arch=$basear
ch
baseurl=file:///home/fedora/local/$releasever
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0


Note that "local" isn't really the best name, as there is a yum extension
that also works with a local repo.

You can also just install the kernel rpms with rpm, but make sure to use
install not update for the kernel and kernel-devel packages, or you'll only be
left with one kernel, which may not be nice if it doesn't work.

While this currently works, the kernel and graphic drivers are inter-related
and this may limit what you can do at some point later in the F14 life cycle.