On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 7:37 PM, Phil Schaffner <P.R.Schaffner at ieee.org> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 22:33 +0000, Karanbir Singh wrote: >> Linuxguy123 wrote: >> > b) One of the things I really need are up to date (bleeding edge) >> > kernels. For example, F8 has 2.6.26 kernels, whereas CentOS appears to >> > be running 2.6.18 kernels. I do know how to build my own kernels, but >> > that is a pain. >> > >> > Does someone keep a separate repository that has more modern kernels ? >> > Can yum be configured to use only specific packages (ie kernels) from a >> > specific repository ? >> >> Why not step up and offer to maintain a bleeding edge kernel in the >> centos-plus repos ? > > IMHO should be a separate repo, or at least a naming scheme that would > let people still use the "traditional" centos-plus kernels (derived from > the same kernel versions with additional components being turned on) > would be required. Otherwise there would be too much risk of people > unintentionally updating to bleeding-edge kernels. > I think it would need to be a seperate repo for other reasons... I believe lots of userspace/kernelspace changed in the 2.6.22 time frame so a lot of sub-packages need to handle to. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"