[CentOS-devel] working around stacked updates

Tue Jun 24 16:57:05 UTC 2014
Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>

On 06/24/2014 11:50 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On 06/24/2014 11:35 AM, R P Herrold wrote:
>> On Tue, 24 Jun 2014, Karanbir Singh wrote:
>>
>>> So unless there are any objections in the near future, I would say we
>>> have a process that allows us to arbitarily work on older content, in
>>> side branches without stamping on c7/
>> I may be not understanding what you are saying
>>
>> A centos 7.0 gold, set of installable images (which inclide 
>> kernel in the anaconda) are not yet emitted.  Prior practice 
>> was to pick a kernel level, and to integrate / stabilize** 
>> that ** kernel at time of 'drop' into the anaconda, knowing 
>> full well that a clutch of updates would come cascading in 
>> immediately after the install at firstboot
>>
>> This was useful, as it is not all that uncommon to "exclude=' 
>> the kernel updates from the yum setup.  I have a laptop which 
>> has not been able to take a kernel update since C6.3, for 
>> example, as the LCD backlight code is not working in later 
>> versions
>>
>> Indeed, I had to search back through several kernel initial 
>> release and updates during debugging
>>
>> Will the 'as dropped' kernel and each intermediate kernel 
>> discussed by upstream in a RHSA, etc be published?  What is 
>> the plan as to anaconda integration?
>>
>> -- Russ herrold
> Right, but git went past that update ... as their were 2 commits back to
> back .. the GA kernel and the zeroday update kernel.
>
> The goal here is to do mods to the GA kernel to put on the ISO, get
> those mods into git using the GA kernel and also not erase the Zero Day
> kernel info ..
>
> so these 3 changes are to GA kernel:
>
> 16 hours ago     Karanbir Singh        
> update changelog for the debranding changes    
>     315459     diff | tree
>
> 16 hours ago     Jim Perrin        
> Add two small patches for kernel debranding. Addresses
> arch/x86/kernel/setu...    
>     d96cc7     diff | tree
>
> 16 hours ago     Karanbir Singh        
> Patch in CentOS SecureBoot keys    
>     df32f9     diff | tree
>
> while these 2 are to the Zero Day Kernel:
>
> 16 hours ago     Karanbir Singh        
> Merge branch 'c7-GA' into c7    
>     f355f5     diff | tree
>
> 16 hours ago     Karanbir Singh        
> Patch in CentOS SecureBoot keys    
>     0b2610     diff | tree
>
> So that means we can build both kernels from git ... one to put onto the
> iso, the other one (now two after we apply the same changes to the new
> kernel-3.10.0-123.4.2.el7)

The other 2 into the updates repo, that should say ...

>
> These kind of changes will only happen when Red Hat imports 2 versions
> in before we have a chance to modify the first version ... which will
> only likely happen on point releases?


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