What will it take to get a 2.6.27 kernel in RH8 ?

[Antonio Olivares]

--- On Wed, 11/12/08, Linuxguy123 <linuxguy123 at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Linuxguy123 <linuxguy123 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: What will it take to get a 2.6.27 kernel in RH8 ?
> To: olivares14031 at yahoo.com, "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Date: Wednesday, November 12, 2008, 7:24 AM
> On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 07:28 -0800, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> > In Red Hat 8?
> > IT would depend on how long it would take to compile
> probably about 45
> > min to 1 1/2 hours.
> 
> I meant F8.
> 
> > Or do you mean for Fedora 8?
> > 
> > It might not get released yet since Fedora 8 is
> reaching EOL
> 
> But has it reached EOL ?  No.  So why isn't a 2.6.27
> kernel in the F8
> repository ?  The F8 mandate says it will provide support
> to the last 2
> releases.   Has F10 been released yet ?  Nope.  Has 2.6.27
> been
> available for about 2 weeks ?  Yep. 
> 
> So why haven't we seen it in the F8 repo ?
> 
> Thanks

It is an excellent question.  But I do not have the answers.  I just responded the way I have seen it been from past experience.  

Have you checked koji?
or updates-testing enabled?

Regards,

Antonio