On 11/05/11 19:01, Les Mikesell wrote:
On 5/11/2011 12:32 PM, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
Hello Steve,
On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 09:10 -0400, Steve Clark wrote:
On 05/11/2011 08:49 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: I had looked there before and there we no kernels for 6.0.
Just checking now and still don't see any. Am I missing something?
The fact that 6.0 hasn't been released yet ;p
There is some stuff in http://elrepo.org/linux/testing/el6/, but no complete kernels. Has the change in the way RH releases kernel source made it too difficult to manage modifications?
ELRepo has plenty of packages available for RHEL6. We (elrepo) worked closely with upstream during the beta of 6 to ensure we had a process that was ready to go as soon as 6 was released.
At this point we have chosen not to do a mainline kernel for RHEL6. This has absolutely nothing to do with the way the RHEL6 kernel sources are packaged. The elrepo kernel-ml is a packaged mainline kernel (from kernel.org) and has nothing to do with the RHEL kernel. It has far more to do with the fact the distro kernel in 6 is a lot newer and thus there is currently less need for a packaged mainline kernel. We (Alan) already maintains 2 mainline kernels packaged for RHEL5 (the 2.6.35 long term support and 2.6.38 latest stable) and that represents a significant amount of work for one person, in addition to everything else he does. Adding another one or two kernel series for 6 is not a task to undertake lightly.