On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 08:15:43AM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
Hi!
Funny, I just started using that stuff for the first time a few days
ago(ยน); I was happy to find it and planed to use it regularly in the
future, as I added a stable-testing to the
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Kernel_Vanilla_Repositories a few days ago.
But I guess my usage is to special and is not worth keeping that stuff,
as I can easily revert that in my spec. OTOH it makes it easy for people
to build a stable-rc kernel in case they want to, but that also is a
corner case.
I think I'm going to go ahead with the patch and drop the macros. I
don't mean to inconvenience you, but it has little value overall.
From a Fedora standpoint, the stable RC windows are far too short to
actually do anything with, given that they are typically 2-3 days and
we wouldn't submit that as an update in bodhi anyway. I would think
building them in the vanilla repo would run into similar issues, in
that by the time it was built and anyone tried it, the stable release
was imminent.
I can see utility for someone wishing to try an RC by themselves to test
a fix or something, but at that point a user might get more value by
building from git+stable queue. Then they can also stop building the
8000 drivers they don't need, and their testing and turn around becomes
much faster. That also allows them to interact with the upstream stable
maintainers more easily.
I really appreciate the vanilla repos, so hopefully this isn't a huge
issue for you. I'd like to see those continue on as you find time, etc.
josh