Fedora 4 XEN and Kernel 2.4xenU

[Roland Käser]

Hello

> this would increase the complexity of kernel
> building and maintenance for FC4 and beyond.

Why? Its just an other rpm packages which provides the kernel 2.4.29. The xen distro contributes the packages for it. Just a new spec and a new srpm. Should take (I'm not yet a specialist for building rpms for xen) around a half hour to create the package.

Roland


Paul Iadonisi schrieb:

>On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 21:10 +0200, Roland Käser wrote:
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>>Hello
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>>No, what I ment, is that the xen distro from camebridge brings patches 
>>for kernel 2.9.10xenU and 2.4.29xenU. Shouldn't these are be part of 
>>FC4? Not only the 2.6 kernels.
>>In many cases there are complex installations on Redhat 8 or 9 which 
>>should be integratedable into a server consolidation.
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>  Hmm, I hadn't thought of that.  But as desirable as that sounds, I
>strongly suspect that this would increase the complexity of kernel
>building and maintenance for FC4 and beyond.  If there's much demand for
>it, it could be picked up by one of the alternative repositories (some
>of them, if I'm not mistaken, collectively known as rpmforge, now).
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