>> > I can see that RCs of development version of kernel are being built in rawhide. >> > Which is really great to test new stuff. But I would be pretty scared to run RC >> > kernel normally. >> >> No, I don't see how that adds value, the kernels RCs are generally OK >> and how is it any different to running development userspace > > ...or they can contain bugs in FS drivers which will corrupt your data. You can have that even in stable releases, look at the recent issue with corruption which affected a number of the stable releases from memory. >> > Would it make sense then to also build latest stable releases? >> > >> > E.g. now it would be 4.1.3. All I can see in koji is this 4.1.3 build [1] for f22. >> >> How would that even work from a dnf/rpm perspective? It will always >> pull in the latest and hence what ever RC is currently built. Kernels >> have the lovely ability to have more than one installed at once, by >> default 3, so if one particular RC causes issues you grab appropriate >> debug details to report a bug and reboot into the last one that >> worked. You could also manually download/install a 4.1.x stable >> release if a RC series causes you particular pain in a cycle, but >> ultimately if it's not tested and fixed in the RC cycle you're likely >> to have issues with it when it goes stable due to people not testing. >> >> Peter > > Well, we could have a separate repo with all stable kernels and installing the > kernels as > > ``` > $ dnf update --disablerepo="*" --enablerepo=rawhide-stable-kernel > ``` > > (wild idea) And who would do all that extra work, the QA of the kernel on the various different combinations of release? >> You could also manually download/install a 4.1.x stable release if a RC series >> causes you particular pain in a cycle > > I can't. I would have to build it myself. And that's really my point with this > thread: should I build the kernel myself, or is anyone else interested in this > and can we figure out a solution for everyone? Why? You can run most kernels anywhere, I often run rawhide kernels on stable releases and visa versa and getting them from koji is a solution that works for most people who want something non standard. Peter -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
