[elrepo] elrepo :: is fedora supported?

[Adrian Sevcenco]

On 08/05/11 22:07, Phil Perry wrote:
> On 05/08/11 19:45, Adrian Sevcenco wrote:
>> Hi! Given the intro:
>> "Welcome to ELRepo, an RPM repository for Enterprise Linux packages.
>> ELRepo supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and its derivatives
>> (Scientific Linux, CentOS&  others)."
>>
>> is by any chance Fedora in "others"?
>> Thank you,
>> Adrian
>>
> 
> Hi Adrian,
> 
> No, because Fedora kernels do not contain a stable kernel ABI (kABI) 
> therefore drivers (kernel modules) must be built against each and every 
> kernel release. Only RHEL (and it's clones) offers a stable kernel ABI 
> that facilitates the kABI-tracking kmod packages that elrepo produces.
> 
> Hope that helps.
Thanks! My intention of question was towards kernel-ml .. i am a little
bit lazy so it would have helped to have a known repo for vanilla kernel ...

Adrian

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