RHEL 6 Beta

[Nicolas Chauvet]

2010/4/23 Jack Neely <jjneely at ncsu.edu>:
> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 05:40:37PM +0200, Nicolas Chauvet wrote:
>> 2010/4/23 Jack Neely <jjneely at ncsu.edu>:
>> > Folks,
>> >
>> > The RHEL 6 Beta is out and I'm interested in rpmfusion support for RHEL
>> > 6.  Sounds like EPEL will be branching in a week or two.  I'd like to
>> > put some work into making this happen.
>> >
>> > I guess the first step is to get RHEL6 Beta1 on more mirrors so that we
>> > can have easy access to the Yum repos.
>> I would be interested in creating an el-6 branch right now also.
>> But because anything above ffmpeg in F-13 is doomed because of
>> http://www.videolan.org/security/sa1003.html
>> I would branch some packages from F-13 tree. (and vlc from F-14).
>>
>> That been said most packages should be branched from F-12, so the question is:
>> How much of the current RPM Fusion packages maintainer do want to
>> support their package in EL-6 also ?
>> (so that we can eventually automatically branch packages from F-12)
>>
>> Nicolas (kwizart)
>>
>> ps: that been said, I cannot expect anything in el-? branches before
>> we solve two questions:
>> How to move to our own hosted koji build server infra ?
>> how to deal with kernel module in the EL world (where a stable kABI is
>> the rule).
>>
>
> I've been using the kmod standards as rpmfusion knows and loves with
> RHEL5 since it was released.  It works very well there.  I don't see
> this one as a blocker.
Which ones are you talking about?  kmod1 or kmod2 standard ? And which
one supports kABI if any ?
The point is: I'm not aware rpmfusion ever did kABI the way it's
currently done with Red Hat.

Of course that's not about a blocker, but a decision to be made along
with a team to be in charge to maintain.

Nicolas (kwizart)