2.6.29 kernel for f10

[Michal Hlavinka]

On Monday 27 April 2009 16:46:16 Dennis J. wrote:
> On 04/27/2009 12:15 PM, M A Young wrote:
> > On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, Dennis J. wrote:
> >> I'm seeing 2.6.29 packages for f10 showing up on koji for a while now
> >> but they never end up as a real update. Is there any particular reason
> >> for that?
> >
> > I imagine that the intention is to go to 2.6.29 on f10 at some point,
> > but there are still issues to fix before it is ready for general
> > release. For example one such issue that is now solved is that 2.6.29
> > uses a different version of squashfs to the one in f10, which meant that
> > things such as liveCDs would cease to work (this was solved by adding
> > the code for the earlier version of squashfs to 2.6.29), but there may
> > be other things that still need to be resolved.
>
> I guess I'm wondering why so much effort is put into this when by the time
> the kernel gets released for f10 it is already outdated and we are moving
> towards a f12 release which will end the support for f10 anyway.

correction:
after F11 release and about two months, F9 won't be supported (F10 will)

> If f10 and/or kernel 2.6.29 is going to be the baseline for RHEL 6 then I
> could see why such an effort is made but other than that, why bother?
>
> Regards,
>    Dennis