Keep the FC6 kernel at 2.6.20 or move it to 2.6.21?

Chris Brown snecklifter at gmail.com
Thu Apr 19 18:52:47 UTC 2007


On 19/04/07, Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 05:08:29PM +0100, Chris Brown wrote:
> > > On 18.04.2007 23:23, Dave Jones wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 01:47:55PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > > >  > I'd say let F7 testing iron out 2.6.21 for a while before
> deciding
> > > about
> > > >  > FC6.  We should be in the part of freeze where serious Fedora
> weenies
> > > are
> > > >  > doing a lot of testing.
> > > > Getting 2.6.21 into FC6 does also have the additional advantage that
> > > > it's an extra round of testing for what will become the F7 kernel.
> > >
> > > +1 -- putting in in updates-testing quite soon might be a start.
> >
> >
> > +1 for moving it straight into updates for reasons already stated plus
> isn't
> > a kernel upgrade dependent on user confirmation? I have always felt for
> this
> > reason that updates-testing is not the right place for testing kernels
> as
> > the installonlyn plugin for yum ensures that a backup kernel (hopefully
> > stable) is always available.
>
> I usually recommend at least 1 day in updates-testing, if only to catch
> any *really* stupid bugs.  A few times I've been hit by dumb packaging
> thinkos
> and even a few 'doesnt boot' bugs which were blindingly obvious after
> testing.
> Especially the older hardware, which I don't test as much these days.
>
> updates-testing doesn't get the level of feedback that I'd like to see,
> but I think this is largely because a lot of people don't know it's there.
> If firstboot had a "would you like to test experimental updates?" dialog,
> we may find we get a lot more feedback.  Well,.. I can dream.
>

If I want to test the latest and greatest I've always used your
people.redhat.com/davej ftp. It would be good to have the above option you
mention and the place for it would be the additional CD's dialog. I only
discovered updates-testing by chance myself. I think there is room for a
middle-ground between rawhide and updates but its probably a discussion for
a list other than this one...

Chris

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