Re: Two questions about FC1 kernel upgrades

[Dave Jones <davej redhat com>]

On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 20:22, Tom Mitchell wrote:

> I suspect for those with slow links a list of changes
> would help folks decide to do the big download promptly
> or put it off to later.

Announces get sent to fedora-announce-list, which contains
the changelog, plus an indepth overview where it's deemed necessary.

> Since almost all the info is in the header of the rpm,
> can you post it.

It's largely automated by the errata process.
Which goes something like..
- build srpm
- feed srpm to build system
- get it signed
- generate update mail using a script which pulls the changelog
  out of the srpm, and includes the md5sums etc.
- write up any extra bits needed
- push to servers
- wait a little while
- mail to fedora-announce-list.

> For those with slow links, skip installing and downloading the works
> until you have looked at the change log.  Since Dave indicated he is
> making many smallish updates it may be safe enough to skip or postpone
> some updates.

2163 is going into -testing today. The 2154 that was there already isn't
going to be moved to -updates, as theres nothing really 'must have'
there.  There are a few security fixes in the 2163 update, which should
go to -updates quite soon, but as none of them are remotely exploitable,
and there's a kernel in -testing if folks are really desperate for them,
I'm going to hold off on pushing into -updates for another week or so.

I'd really appreciate as many people as possible jump on that one btw,
as it has quite a few VM changes to bring things closer to mainline.
My preliminary testing has shown it to be stable, and in some tests,
performance seems up too.

	Dave