Custom patched kernels in RPMFusion

[Felix Kaechele]

Good evening :)

I run a firewall server for my school using Fedora. I currently patch in 
a l7-filter patch (http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/) in by hand because 
we need to block some stuff based on the network data (i.e. not port or 
protocol). I think it would be a great benefit to other users to have 
such kernels available from a repository rather than patching them by 
hand since l7-filter is also of great help as far as traffic shaping is 
concerned. Especially as the l7-patch only requires one extra kernel 
config option means that the generic Fedora config could stay 
essentially the same.

I already shared my idea of providing custom patched kernels in 
RPMFusion with Thorsten and he said that it would be an interesting 
thing to do. But I also, of course, want to know the opinion of the 
other contributors as this is a decision that should be made by not only 
a few people.

Do you think this is a thing we could/should do? How does our build 
infrastructure like it to regularly be jammed by kernel builds? Or does 
this raise your concern in any other way?

I'm really eager to hear your comments.

Felix