On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 08:10:12PM -0700, Brendan Conoboy wrote: >>> > All supported platforms must have kernels built from the Fedora >>> > kernel SRPM and enabled by default in the spec file. Each kernel must >>> > be built in a timely manner for every SRPM upload. >>> >>> What exactly is timely? What margin is acceptable? Is this only >>> for kernel or does this apply to any package with a >>> much-longer-than-average build time? What would constitute being in >>> that class? Or should the class be critical-path packages? >>> Something else? >> >> The kernel's kind of a special case due to the relatively frequent >> security updates. The exact nature of what kind of speed is required >> would probably need to be discussed with the kernel team. > > It was, on the kernel list: > > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kernel/2012-March/003702.html > > (Max build time for the kernel: 4 hours). With luck, and I use the term tongue in cheek, we should be able able to use DeviceTree in the F-18+ time frame and reduce the number of kernels we have and hence the build time greatly but only time will tell. Peter -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
