On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Jakub Jelinek wrote: > >> The koji build boxes all run RHEL 5. Getting them upgraded to a not-yet- > >> released kernel seems unlikely. > > > > I know it is a pain, on the other hand it would really improve Fedora 11. > > Not only that. It is the only way to actually test what we are shipping. > > At least from glibc's POV (but indirectly from a much wider range) we > have to compile everything on the kernel we are shipping for the > release. Period. I know that the current build infrastructure doesn't > do this but this only means it has to change. We have virtualization > available, there is no excuse. > Ehh, I assure you if we don't change it... Fedora 11 will still ship so it doesn't "have to change". So someone needs to articulate, very precisely, what benefit investing time into our buildsystem, testing, release upgrading (Fedora is more expensive then RHEL), etc is going to have. Keep in mind we still can't even build epel on our normal buildsystem yet because of $PEOPLE_TIME What benefit will it have to our users? What benefit will it have to our developers? -Mike -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
