Two questions about FC1 kernel upgrades

[Dag Wieers]

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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