On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 06:52:41AM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > On 29.08.2007 21:05, Dave Jones wrote: > > I'd like to move forward on us getting vanilla builds out for testers. > > I'm willing to help here if there is anything I can do. > > > There are a couple things worth thinking about, which I'd like other > > peoples thoughts on. > > > > * The location of the binaries - I think we ended up settling > > on putting them on people.fedoraproject.org. > > My vote is still to ship them in the proper repos -- an idea lot of > people liked in last weeks discussion here. But people feared the space > requirements. But that's a problem on p.f.o as well afaics. Nearly everyone else I've talked to about this seems to be against that idea for whatever reasons. > > * how/where to building them. > > AFAIK, it isn't possible to pass switches like --with-vanilla > > to koji, so the two options are.. > > - build vanilla as part of the regular build > > (not a great idea, it already takes hours to build > > a complete set of kernels). > > How about a different package kernel-vanilla in CVS that can be build > independently of the normal build? This means committing rebases to >1 place, which sounds like losing. It doesn't really bring any advantages either afaics. > > [...] > > * dependancies. > > This is the only remaining technical puzzle I think. > > I'd like the vanilla rpms to install on FC6, F7, and rawhide. > > Doing separate builds per distro is just going to kill me. > > But often needed, as people otherwise often can't build kernel modules > theirselfs, as GCC doesn't match (it does currently iirc, but often > there are different major versions of gcc in the different distros. 3rd party modules for kernel-vanilla brings up an interesting question. For bugs found in kernel-vanilla, I want *everything* to go to linux-kernel or bugzilla.kernel.org. If reports there contain any out-of-tree modules, they'll get closed out no questions asked. AFAIAC, 3rd party modules are even less supportable on -vanilla than they are on the regular fedora kernel. For the minority that can't live without 3rd party modules, they can build their own kernels, because building a full set of kernels for each distro is time consuming enough that I only want to do this once. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk _______________________________________________ Fedora-kernel-list mailing list Fedora-kernel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kernel-list
