On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 3:13 PM, James Hogarth <james.hogarth(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 5 September 2017 at 18:26, Laura Abbott <labbott(a)redhat.com> wrote:
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>> On 09/05/2017 09:59 AM, James Hogarth wrote:
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>> > On 5 Sep 2017 5:42 pm, "Laura Abbott" <labbott(a)redhat.com
>> > <mailto:labbott@redhat.com>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Kernel 4.13 was released this past weekend. This kernel has been
>> > built for rawhide and is building for F27 as well. We will be
>> > following the same upgrade procedure as in the past. F25 and F26
>> > will get rebased to 4.13 after a few stable releases, typically
>> > 4.13.2 or 4.11.3 depending on how stable the kernel is. Upstream
>> > does not give release dates for stable release but given past
>> > timings, this will probably happen towards the end of September.
>> > As always, if you have any questions please let me know.
>> >
>> >
>> > Thanks for the heads up Laura
>> >
>> > Will there be a stabilization COPR for us to test the builds against/on
>> > F26?
>> >
>>
>> Yes, I can throw that in the stabilization copr once I start working on
>> the rebase. I might have a very early 4.13.0 to test by the end of
>> the week but no promises.
>>
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> That's great thanks ... I'd be happy to test the builds and provide early
> feedback on my laptop ... but as I can't risk it going boom I'm not able to
> update it to F27 until further through the release schedule.
>
> Having an F26 build of the upcoming kernel makes early testing simple though
> :)
FWIW, you can just download the F27 kernel, kernel-core,
kernel-modules (optionally extras), and 'sudo dnf install *rpm' in
that same download directory and it will install it without complaint.
I routinely run Fedora built n+1 (typically rawhide) kernels on
current release OS.
--
Chris Murphy
