[Arm-dev] Rebase to kernel 4.9.x (LTS) for armhfp : call for testers

[Robert Moskowitz]

ARGH!!!

Look at your sample .repo that I just copied and pasted.

For kernels, you have enabled=0

I colored the line red below.

!!!!

I just did not look at it.

On 03/01/2017 11:00 AM, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
> On 01/03/17 14:21, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>
>> On 02/28/2017 04:28 AM, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
>>> Hi guys,
>>>
>>> As mentioned in the other thread about new kernel (basically to fix the
>>> dccp cve issue), I had a look at the 4.4.x branch, but thought also
>>> about a rebase to 4.9.x (also upstream LTS at kernel.org)
>>>
>>> For AltArch (centos 7 i386), Johnny built a 4.9.13 kernel and so I
>>> reused it for armhfp
>>> It also makes sense to rebase to 4.9.x for rpi2/rpi3 as the rpi
>>> foundation also rebased to 4.9 and so confirmed to me that they don't
>>> maintain 4.4.x (even if they still accept Pull Requests).
>>>
>>> So we have now 4.9.13 available for both rpi and generic.
>>>
>>> The following /etc/yum.repos.d/testing-kernel.repo would do it :
>>>
>>> [kernel-testing]
>>> name=CentOS Kernels for armhfp testing
>>> baseurl=https://buildlogs.centos.org/centos/7/kernel/$basearch/kernel-$kvariant/
>>>
>>> enabled=0
>>> gpgcheck=0
>>>
>>> [firmware]
>>> name=firmware
>>> baseurl=https://armv7.dev.centos.org/repodir/arm-kernels/linux-firmware-20170213/
>>>
>>> enabled=1
>>> gpgcheck=0
>>>
>>>
>>> After that a simple yum update --enablerepo=kernel-testing would bring
>>> it to the node
>>>
>>> For rpi, nothing to be done
>>> For the other boards, I've added an update-boot tool to automatically
>>> modify extlinux.conf. but you need the updated centos-userland-release
>>> pkg :
>>> https://armv7.dev.centos.org/repodir/c71611-updates-1/centos-userland-release/7-3.1611.el7.centos.0.2/armv7hl/centos-userland-release-7-3.1611.el7.centos.0.2.armv7hl.rpm
>>>
>>>
>>> Worth noting that the actual 4.9.13 will *not* call it in the %post rpm
>>> transaction (yet) but if that tool works for everybody, we'll add it for
>>> newer kernels.
>>>
>>> Any feedback is welcome, but for the kernel I'd like to push that asap
>>> to signing/release (so the more feedback, the faster we'll have it
>>> released) ;-)
>> I just tried to install this on a server that is running with 4.4.42-202.
>>
>> No update to the kernel.  Only proposes the 17 firmware files.
>>
>> So I suspect there is some problem with the date of this update, making
>> it earlier than even 4.4.42-202.
>>
>> Separate question about kernels.
>>
>> When I *DO* update to a new kernel, do I have to reboot to be using the
>> new kernel.  Or are the new modules/libraries just called in while
>> running?  I never did figure this out...
>>
>> thanks
>>
> You should verify your yum local metadata/cache, as I confirm that pkgs
> are there
> (https://buildlogs.centos.org/centos/7/kernel/armhfp/kernel-generic/Packages/)
> , and in repodata/metadata. (I updated a cubietruck through that method)


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