Kernel testing on GA Releases.

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I'm not sure if you guys are aware of this but a lot of reporters test and run development and more recent kernels then those that are available via the usual GA update mechanism and recent changes [1] which introduce hard dependency on dracut and systemd versions on kernel installs are preventing the ability for reporters to either a) enable fedora-rawhide-kernel-nodebug.repo or b) manually install specific kernel release from koji and test more recent kernels on already existing GA releases.

If we now have hard dependency's on specific dracut/systemd versions we need to start looking into sync-ing kernel/dracut/systemd releases better in GA ( arguably the entire base/core stack but that's a topic for a later time) or back port the necessary bits that the kernel install requires into the kernel/systemd/dracut releases in GA.

JBG

[1].

--> Processing Dependency: dracut >= 027 for package: kernel-3.10.0-1.fc20.x86_64
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: kernel-3.10.0-1.fc20.x86_64 (/kernel-3.10.0-1.fc20.x86_64)
           Requires: systemd >= 203-2
           Installed: systemd-201-2.fc18.7.x86_64 (@updates-testing)
               systemd = 201-2.fc18.7
           Available: systemd-195-15.fc18.x86_64 (fedora)
               systemd = 195-15.fc18
Error: Package: kernel-3.10.0-1.fc20.x86_64 (/kernel-3.10.0-1.fc20.x86_64)
           Requires: dracut >= 027
           Installed: dracut-024-25.git20130205.fc18.x86_64 (@updates)
               dracut = 024-25.git20130205.fc18
           Available: dracut-024-18.git20130102.fc18.x86_64 (fedora)
               dracut = 024-18.git20130102.fc18
 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
 You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest



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