Two questions about FC1 kernel upgrades

[Dag Wieers]

On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Dag Wieers wrote:

> 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 ;(

Of course, now that RH73 and RH80 are EOL this is improving.

Is there a grace period when FC2 is out for people that are not 
immediately moving to FC2 ? I guess during that period both FC1 and FC2 
will get official updates. (I'm not talking about Fedora Legacy)

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