On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 04:59:08PM +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > On 07/02/2013 02:35 PM, Justin M. Forbes wrote: > >On Tue, 2013-07-02 at 10:07 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > >>>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. > >We are very supportive of this, and frequently point people towards > >rawhide-nodebug. If people don't want to run full rawhide, we would love > >for them to at least run kernel snapshots. > > > >>>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. > >>> > >This is a rare instance, and it hit several people. If I had the option > >of putting the required changes into F17/F18 I would have, but Harald > >did put them in 19 at least. This is a situation we really prefer to > >avoid, but sometimes there is no other way. > > Well this could have in it's most simple form be avoided with F18 > related #ifdef in the kernel.spec. We took the patch Harald provided. > I pinged Harald in irc about this and he went through dracut changes > and backported/rebased to 029 [1] > So that takes care of the dracut dependency which leaves out systemd > and I've pinged Michal but he has been to busy to look into it yet > which leaves out grubby and looking at [2] grubby seems to include > only fixes and those changes so I dont see why Peter should not be > able to backport/rebase to 8.26 for F18. You might want to file an RFE bug. I don't believe Peter reads this list. josh _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel
