I recommend including all available updates including the kernel. Regarding the kernel and hardware requiring a driver disk. Either the driver will still be ABI compatible with any new kernel installed at 'run time' - or - the driver is not compatible and a new driver is required regardless. The only issue to investigate is any artificial restrictions on driver disks imposed by anaconda. I have not used a driver disk since RHEL7.2 so I don't know what issues might lie there. John. Karanbir Singh wrote: > hi guys, > > Something to talk about while we prep C-5 for release... > > There were some packages that were updated along with release, I can > imagine this was since the tree must have been frozen a while before > actual release upstream. However, we dont have that problem - the tree > hasent been released. > > So, what does everyone thing ? Should we release the tree with the > updates rolled in ? or should we release the tree exactly as upstream > did, and also provide the updates to go alongside - but in the updates > repo ? > > One thing that I would be very hesitant to update would be the kernel, > since updating that would imply updating the installer kernel as well. > Which is going to cause lots of issues since its known that vendors and > support people will ask for specific kernels at specific times ( eg. > installed with x.y.z and 5.0.0 ) > > - KB -- John Newbigin Computer Systems Officer Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin