On Wednesday 01 August 2007 18:45:24 Jeff Mahoney wrote:
Greg KH wrote:
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 09:22:18AM +0200, Joachim Deguara wrote:
On Wednesday 01 August 2007 08:16:53 Jeff Mahoney wrote:
Ildar Akhmetshin wrote:
Just curious if there are any plans on switching to 2.6.23 kernel for OpenSUSE 10.3? If it's too late to change the kernel, then maybe a -CFS or/and -SD patched flavors can be released through BuildService. I just think it'll be beneficial for an already great Linux distribution.
Hi Ildar -
I'm the kernel release manager for openSUSE 10.3.
We have no plans to ship 2.6.23 at present. 10.3 is about to enter the beta phase of development. Updating the kernel version would be far too invasive and, more importantly, invalidate any of the valuable QA work that SUSE teams and the alpha testers out there have already performed. As usual, we'll end up backporting fixes and small feature, but it's just too late to jump another version.
At OLS 2007 there was talk of how can we can achieve better coverage of the latest RC branch kernel or even the latest mainline release for that matter. Would there be any support from openSUSE to keep a kernel in the repository which is just the latest vanilla RC release as an unsupported RPM? This way the brave could easily test the RC releases and know if there is a problem they should go to lkml and not bugzilla.novell.com. You could even create the "Warning unsupported. Report bugs to the lkml" message with the current pop-up that conveys license information for RPMs.
I think we already have those types of kernels in the opensuse build system. Have you looked at: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/Vanilla/SUSE_Factory/
Hm, it seems like that isn't very up to date...
Jeff, do you remember who was building these packages?
IIRC, Jan Blunck was managing those. I was about to respond saying this would be perfect for the Build Service, but wasn't sure about how to define it as a repo.
Wow I never saw this repository. It is exactly what I was talking about above except for being in a separate repository. How is this made known to the public? There was no reference to it at opensuse.org that I could find. Perhaps it should go here http://en.opensuse.org/Package_Repositories Just seams if it is hidden, then there won't be much coverage either. I would think putting it in the default repository would be the way to get the most eyes to look at it even if it is not installed by default. -Joachim -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+help@opensuse.org