On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 12:22 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > Has anyone made 2.6.40 packages install on F14? Unfortunately the F15 > kernel package needs some other stuff, and due to all of the systemd > changes I'm not sure it would boot OK. > > I would happily deploy a 2.6.40 on my remaining F14 machines even if I > had to pull it from an external repo. v2.6.40 and v3.0 being actually the same thing, I can tell that about a week ago I wrote this to this list: > A related anecdote: I'm currently running a (Rawhide derived, locally > rebuilt) v3.0.x kernel package on F14 (this is a laptop with a rather > boring setup). To get that package installed I also backported (ie, > rebuilt locally) mdadm-3.2.1-5 and module-init-tools-3.16-2. No > obvious breakage, at least not yet... > > But the obvious disclaimer for stuff like this is: if it breaks, you > get to keep the pieces. I still have not encountered any obvious problems due to some v3.0 and F14 mismatch. There are some downsides to this solution (eg, it's a lot of work). Besides, I'm pretty sure it's not worth the effort (even if using prebuilt packages) for those few months of life still left in F14. Paul Bolle _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel
