Two questions about FC1 kernel upgrades
Dag Wieers
dag at wieers.com
Wed Jan 14 10:09:19 UTC 2004
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> 1) Since I installed FC1 just before Christmas, I have had to do 4
> kernel upgrades in 3 weeks. Is that an anomalous period, or it's
> always going to be like that in the Fedora world? I don't remember so many
> kernel updates in a short time like this with RHL8/9. Or I'm getting
> what I'm paying for? :)
>
> Dec 24 14:48 vmlinux-2.4.22-1.2135.nptl
> Jan 6 17:50 vmlinux-2.4.22-1.2138.nptl
> Jan 7 23:19 vmlinux-2.4.22-1.2140.nptl
> Jan 13 20:40 vmlinux-2.4.22-1.2149.nptl
Also a huge pain for kernel-module packagers. For each kernel release I'm
doing about 14 packages for 4 archs and 4 distributions, for smp and up.
That's about 448 kernel-module packages for each new kernel. It takes
more than 24 hours to do ;(
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