[Fedora-music-list] Kernel & Repo questions

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

Anthony Green schrieb:
> On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 00:24 -0500, Wade Nelson wrote:
>> 1b) on a production system should I stick with CCRMA for now?
> Fedora Extras only provides a fraction of the total CCRMA repo, and it's
> unlikely it will ever contain everything in that repository (kernel
> packages, for instance).
[...]
>> 2) As this project gets under way will there be a kernel available
>> featuring the real-time preemption patch by Ingo Molnar?  This has made
>> a huge difference for me and is essential to making my system actually
>> usable for live recording.
> There are no plans to put kernels into Fedora Extras.  We just don't
> have the infrastructure or policy to support this in Fedora Extras.  I'm
> hopeful that Ingo's patches will get merged  upstream some day.  Of
> course, this may take years.  Who knows.

I'm still fine if kernels get allowed in Extras repos *if* they are
build from the same spec file and in the same step as the kernel in Core.

But building stuff in Core and shipping it in Extras is not possible
yet. And davej would have to agree to maintain yet another kernel-variant.

Cu
thl