Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

Jeff Garzik
2005-03-03T21:45:05Z

Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote:
> I've watched you periodically announce "hey, I'm doing an update for
> FC3/FC2, please test" on the mail list, and a handful of people go test.
> If we could convince many of the the less risk-averse but lazy users to
> grab kernels automatically from updates/3/testing/ or updates/3/unstable/
> as part of "yum update", and have a way to manage the plethora of (even
> daily) kernel updates by removing old unused kernels, then we'd only
> have to convince them *once* to set up their YUM repos, and then get them
> to poweroff or reboot [or use a Xen domain] occasionally. :-)

Tangent: I would like to see requests-for-testing for FC kernels on LKML.

If people announce -ac/-as/-aa/-ck/etc. kernels on LKML, why not distro
kernels?

Jeff