[elrepo] Kmod compatibility with RHEL 7.1

Manuel Wolfshant wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro
Thu Mar 5 12:33:36 EST 2015


On 5 martie 2015 19:22:21 EET, Phil Perry <phil at elrepo.org> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>As most of you will have noticed, Red Hat have today released RHEL 7.1.
>
>Unfortunately, after some preliminary testing we have identified a
>number of kmod packages in elrepo that are not kABI compatible with the
>RHEL 7.1 kernel (kernel-3.10.0-229.el7.x86_64).
[...]
>What I propose to do is to rebuild the above packages against the RHEL
>7.1 kernel and push them to the testing repository (packages that are
>backward compatible could be pushed straight to the main repository).
>
>We recommend that users update to 7.1 and then update any affected kmod
>packages from the elrepo-testing repository. Users still on 7.0 will
>still have the current versions available.
>
>Once the main clones have released their 7.1 offerings the above
>packages can be moved from the testing repository to the main elrepo
>repository.
>
>To prevent users accidentally installing a kmod on 7.0 that was built
>against 7.1 and is not backward compatible with 7.0, we will add
>Requires for the 7.1 kernel.
>
>Any comments / thoughts?
>

Looks fine to

  Wolfy





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