[Fwd: Testing the Current Upstream Kernel]

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 16.08.2007 19:27, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 06:59:29PM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>  >  * in the proper repo
> Hmm. This would be great, but I think we may get some pushback on this
> one. (Especially as kernel rpms are so big).

Just wondering: What's "big" here round about? We are talking about
round about 20 - 21 MByte per kernel (kernel + devel) afaics; would we
ship all flavors (PAE) as vanilla? Maybe most, but not all (xen for
example).

/me does some math:

ix86: default, PAE
x86_64: default
ppc: default, SMP, kdump

Makes 6 kernels, e.g. 120 MByte. If someone puts up a new game for
review that needs a 120 MByte data-package would we send him away? No we
wouldn't. So why not ship the vanilla kernel in the proper repos?

Ohh, sorry, I forgot the debuginfo packages. Ouch, they are 200 MByte in
size. Well, that becomes a problem, but:

> I'm thinking that a repo on people.fedoraproject.org is probably
> the best of the bunch.

Which has a 150**MByte Quota iirc -- so you can't ship the debuginfo
stuff there either. And non of the other Kernels that you ship via your
p.r.c stuff (well, as long as you don't get more space offered, which I
assume might be possible).

>  >  [...]
>  > Should we move this discussion to fedora-devel instead, so everyone can
>  > participate?
> I think most of the concerned parties (rel-eng, infrastructure etc) are
> represented on this list already. but I've no objection.

If they don't speak up here sooner or later I'll start a thread in
fedora-devel ;-)

CU
knurd