[elrepo-devel] RHEL6 beta

[Farkas Levente]

On 05/14/2010 01:59 AM, Phil Perry wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> First off, just to let everyone know that ELRepo is planning to support
> RHEL6 when released.
>
> To start that process we have started to take a look at the RHEL6 beta
> and what, if any, changes we face. The guys at Red Hat have made a few
> updates to kmodtool, and there are no more kernel variants to worry
> about (xen kernels are gone, and the default 32-bit kernel is now PAE by
> default) so overall things for us seem a little more straight forward if
> anything - always a pleasant surprise :-)
>
> For those who are testing RHEL6 beta and would like to also test some
> elrepo kmod packages, there is a repo release file here:
>
> http://elrepo.org/elrepo-release-0.1-1.el6.elrepo.noarch.rpm
>
> and packages will be signed with the same key:
>
> rpm --import http://elrepo.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-elrepo.org
>
> There is an el6 tree in place and packages will remain in the /testing
> branch until final RHEL6 release:
>
> http://elrepo.org/linux/testing/el6/
>
> Currently, we have just the one package available (kmod-hellop), which
> is a hello world test kernel module that is hardware independent so
> everyone can test it. Install, load the module (modprobe hellop) and
> have a look in dmesg for the results.
>
> Please also consider kmod-hellop as a way of providing example templates
> for SPEC files and kmodtool for anyone wanting to contribute el6
> packages - just grab yourself the latest copy of the src.rpm.
>
> So which packages should we port first? If you have a particular need
> for a package, or are able to test a package, please give a shout here
> and we can direct efforts in the appropriate directions. I've already
> started work on kmod-nvidia but that's proving a bit of a battle atm. We
> are also considering porting various NIC drivers quite quickly, possibly
> the Realtek and Intel drivers.
>
> Finally, we'd just like to thank the guys at Red Hat again for providing
> us with an excellent stable framework in which to provide updated
> drivers. Thanks!

is the weak-update changes in 5.5 affect 6.0 too? ie. what is the 
current situation with regard to kmod yum update?

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