On 21.05.2008 21:33, Josh Boyer wrote:
On Wed, 21 May 2008 16:20:39 -0300 Alexandre Oliva aoliva@redhat.com wrote:
On May 21, 2008, Brian Pepple bpepple@fedoraproject.org wrote:
Inclusion in Fedora (future and recent past releases) of the kernel-libre package, a 100% Free Software variant of the kernel Linux, that I've been maintaining tracking Fedora kernel builds at http://www.fsfla.org/~lxoliva/fsfla/linux-libre/
We've had this discussion. We aren't going to allow a forked kernel package. Please work with the kernel team to integrate this into the main kernel package.
Slightly related to this and maybe relevant for the -libre discussion:
Dave, what's the status of the "precompiled vanilla kernel rpms" for Fedora? There was the idea to put them in the unusual Fedora repos (which I'd prefer) or in a dedicated repo on your people pages. Was it forgotten? To many technical hurdles? -ENOTIME? Or do we stick to the "build one yourself using rpmbuild and the magic flag if you need one" solution?
Just wondering.
CU knurd
Le Jeu 22 mai 2008 10:24, Thorsten Leemhuis a écrit :
Dave, what's the status of the "precompiled vanilla kernel rpms" for Fedora?
It would be mightily useful to have regular pre-built vanilla and linux-next fedora rpms available in a well-known repo. Often one reports kernel bugs, and then upstream asks vanilla/linux-next re-tests when you do not have a few free hours to invest in a custom kernel rebuild (yes it can be a few hours when you have to figure what changed in kernel build procedures upstream and what changed in the fedora kernel spec during the same period)
On 22.05.2008 10:37, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
Le Jeu 22 mai 2008 10:24, Thorsten Leemhuis a écrit :
Dave, what's the status of the "precompiled vanilla kernel rpms" for Fedora?
It would be mightily useful to have regular pre-built vanilla and linux-next fedora rpms available in a well-known repo. Often one reports kernel bugs, and then upstream asks vanilla/linux-next re-tests when you do not have a few free hours to invest in a custom kernel rebuild (yes it can be a few hours when you have to figure what changed in kernel build procedures upstream and what changed in the fedora kernel spec during the same period)
+1 -- the reasons why it's good to have one where in fact discussed months ago and there was an agreement to ship them somewhere (¹) -- that's why I didn't mention the reasons again in my mail ;-)
But you bring up another good point: having linux-next available as well a pre-compiled rpm might be a nice to have as well -- Andrew iirc some weeks ago expressed that he would like to see something like that.
Sure, -next is not of use for many people, but for some people (like me) it might be a "okay, if I get them pre-compiled I'll test them as it's way easier to do so". Of course if errors show up everything gets more complicated when it comes to debugging -- but that's imho not a reasons not to ship a -next RPM.
CU knurd
(¹) -- which never happened afaik, hence my mail
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