On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 15:53 -0400, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote: > 1. If it's okay for RH to put nonstandard kernels into Fedora, then > shouldn't it be okay for the community to put nonstandard kernels into > Fedora? If not, why not? Well, it pretty much *has* to be as a subpackage from the main kernel package (eg, having everything built from the exact same source tree, just different config options). Otherwise, things will inevitably lag for security issues and there's also a big problem of building kernel modules. > 2. Do we keep the Xen kernel close to the standard Fedora kernel? If so, > how do we do that? See above about it being from the same source tree. At the same time, this requires a huge effort, and I'm not even sure we're doing that good of a job with it yet. Look at rawhide since FC5 to see how often a xen kernel hasn't been present. And that's usually because it stopped building, so davej turned it off. It's essentially a full time job for Juan to keep things in sync. > I'd really like to be able to make Planet CCRMA a standard Fedora install > by FC7. Is it possible? If it's requiring kernel patches that aren't upstream, there's going to be a lot of shouting. Because it's only working marginally well right now with one kernel type that's not upstream. Introducing another into the mix makes getting the kernel to build an order of magnitude more difficult. So I'm not sure how possible it really is :-/ Jeremy
