On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 11:58, Jon Peatfield wrote: > Maybe now would be a good time to start thinking about moving (in a > few months maybe) to a kernel tree based on 2.4.26/27pre just to > reduce the total number of overlapping patches. > This would be a major undertaking. For starters, someone would have to backport nptl to work with 2.4.26/27, which would not be an easy task... Besides, it's not FL's mission to evolve the old releases, just to patch them. > Currently RedHat (etc) are maintaining kernels based on: > > RHEL 2.1 2.4.9 > RHEL 3 2.4.21 > > Fedora are maintaining 2.4.22 for fc1 > > and we have 2.4.20 for RH73/80/9 etc. > > Wouldn't it make sense to produce a srpm which would be usable for all > these systems once fc1 stops being maintained by Fedora? FL will only have to maintain two when fc1 stops being maintained by RH: 2.4.20 and 2.4.22. Marc. -- fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
