Re: RHEL 6 Beta

2010/4/23 Jack Neely <jjneely(a)ncsu.edu&gt;: > On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 05:40:37PM +0200, Nicolas Chauvet wrote: >> 2010/4/23 Jack Neely <jjneely(a)ncsu.edu&gt;: >> > 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)