RHEL 6 Beta

[Jack Neely]

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.

Jack

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