On Monday 27 April 2009 16:46:16 Dennis J. wrote: > On 04/27/2009 12:15 PM, M A Young wrote: > > On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, Dennis J. wrote: > >> I'm seeing 2.6.29 packages for f10 showing up on koji for a while now > >> but they never end up as a real update. Is there any particular reason > >> for that? > > > > I imagine that the intention is to go to 2.6.29 on f10 at some point, > > but there are still issues to fix before it is ready for general > > release. For example one such issue that is now solved is that 2.6.29 > > uses a different version of squashfs to the one in f10, which meant that > > things such as liveCDs would cease to work (this was solved by adding > > the code for the earlier version of squashfs to 2.6.29), but there may > > be other things that still need to be resolved. > > I guess I'm wondering why so much effort is put into this when by the time > the kernel gets released for f10 it is already outdated and we are moving > towards a f12 release which will end the support for f10 anyway. correction: after F11 release and about two months, F9 won't be supported (F10 will) > If f10 and/or kernel 2.6.29 is going to be the baseline for RHEL 6 then I > could see why such an effort is made but other than that, why bother? > > Regards, > Dennis -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
