Re: userspace breakage

Greg KH
2006-01-05T04:43:12Z

On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 12:00:39AM +0100, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote:
> On 1/3/06, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 12:28:53PM -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> >
> > > > I'm glad you agree. I've decided to try something different once 2.6.16
> > > > is out. Every day, I'm going to push the -git snapshot of the day into
> > > > a testing branch for Fedora users. (Normally, only rawhide[1] users
> > > > get to test kernel-de-jour, and this always has the latest userspace, so
> > > > we don't notice problems until a kernel point release and the stable
> > > > distro gets an update).
> > >
> > > Ah, nice idea, I'll try to set up the same thing for Gentoo's kernels.
> > > Hopefully the expanded coverage will help...
>
> Greg,
> did you manage for doing the same for Gentoo?

As there wasn't a more recent kernel than 2.6.15 until a few hours ago,
no I haven't done this yet :)

> If so, what's the approach? Is Gentoo now shipping pre-compiled -git
> vanilla kernels as well?

Gentoo doesn't ship anything "pre-compiled" :)

Well, ok, I guess it does with the -bin packages...

I was just going to build a -git kernel ebuild and let users update
that. But maybe I should start building pre-built kernels, I'll take it
to the gentoo-dev list, as this isn't a linux-kernel specific thing.

thanks,

greg k-h