Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kernel (25 mails)

[Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@xxxxxxxx>]

Why not have a different repo for this? Other distros have a  
"volatile" repo for fast changes, why not offer that as an option...  
Something between the release and FACTORY.

-Jeff

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Jeff Mahoney (mobile)
SUSE Labs


On Jun 19, 2008, at 8:27 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 11:18:56AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > > > Just a quick FYI that after the 11.0 branch announcement, the HEAD
> > > > kernel has been rebased to 2.6.26-rc5-git5. Updates will be  
> > > > ongoing.
> > >
> > > Thanks a lot for doing this.
> > >
> > > > Once 11.0 is officially released, this will be updated as the  
> > > > FACTORY
> > > > kernel. Until then, packages will be available via the KOTD site at
> > > > http://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/kernel/kotd/HEAD/
> > >
> > > I'm considering what would be involved in updating the version  
> > > that is
> > > in the "normal" 11.0 update repos to 2.6.26, when it is out and we  
> > > seem
> > > to have tested it pretty well in FACTORY.  It would be nice to offer
> > > this for the increased number of bug fixes, and new hardware  
> > > support.
> > > But it would be something new from what we have done before, and I  
> > > don't
> > > know how people would react to it.
> > >
> > > Any opinions?
> >
> > I believe it is 'too dangerous'. We tested 2.6.25 in betas and rcs,
> > while 2.6.26 would be just dumped to users.
>
> With some testing first of course :)
>
> > OTOH, having easy way of installing 2.6.26 _in addition_ to 2.6.25
> > kernel would be nice ...
> >
> > I guess adding 2.6.26 into boot menu as an non-default option by
> > update would be acceptable compromise?
>
> That sounds fine to me.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
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