Re: Support for older kernels

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On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 11:19:06AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Do we need to support running current Fedora releases in kernels which are
> older than the initial Fedora kernel for that release?

That is important if we wish to allow a Fedora container of version X
to be run on a host with Fedora version X-N, for some N. Or equivalently
allow a Fedora version X to run as a container on a non-Fedora host (Ubuntu/
RHEL/Debian/whatever) since they'll almost certainly have a different kernel
version to what Fedora initially ships and that can't be assumed to be newer.

> If yes, what are the kernel baselines?  We can go back to releases earlier
> than 3.2 on most architectures because that's the current glibc baseline
> (except x86_64 and i386, where the glibc baseline is 2.6.32).

To maximise container compatibility, we'd want to be quite conservative
in kernel baseline version.

Regards,
Daniel
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