[Fedora-music-list] Kernel & Repo questions

[Anthony Green]

On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 00:24 -0500, Wade Nelson wrote:
> I just found out about this project, very cool... I'm currently running
> FC5+PlanetCCRMA on my desktop workstation.
> 
> 1) is there a repository for fedora-music project yet or will it become
> available as it is merged into extras?

We're just putting things that make sense into Extras.  Help is
appreciated.

> 1b) on a production system should I stick with CCRMA for now?

Fedora Extras only provides a fraction of the total CCRMA repo, and it's
unlikely it will ever contain everything in that repository (kernel
packages, for instance).

In places where there's overlap (where we've put something in Extras
from CCRMA), I don't think there's any reason to prefer the CCRMA
packages over Fedora Extras (unless you're running FC4 or lower).  I
think all of the Extras packages have higher version/release numbers
than the CCRMA packages anyways, so yum should just sort this out for
you.

> 1c) is the project currently targeting FC5 or is it targeting
> compatibility with FC6 and future versions of Fedora Core?

I think everything so far has gone into FE5 and development (FE6).  Some
packages were also placed in FE4.

> 2) As this project gets under way will there be a kernel available
> featuring the real-time preemption patch by Ingo Molnar?  This has made
> a huge difference for me and is essential to making my system actually
> usable for live recording.

There are no plans to put kernels into Fedora Extras.  We just don't
have the infrastructure or policy to support this in Fedora Extras.  I'm
hopeful that Ingo's patches will get merged  upstream some day.  Of
course, this may take years.  Who knows.

If you're interested in helping move things to Extras, just shout out.

AG