On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 06:39:29PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 6:25 PM, James Hogarth <james.hoga...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 5 September 2017 at 22:40, Chris Murphy <li...@colorremedies.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 3:38 PM, Chris Murphy <li...@colorremedies.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> > FWIW, you can just download the F27 kernel, kernel-core,
> >> > kernel-modules (optionally extras), and 'sudo dnf install *rpm' in
> >> > that same download directory and it will install it without complaint.
> >> > I routinely run Fedora built n+1 (typically rawhide) kernels on
> >> > current release OS.
> >>
> >> Small gotcha is that you can't upgrade perf, dnf will complain. But
> >> usually rudimentary use of current perf will work with a newer kernel.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Right ... with kernel-tools and perf I'd rather have something built against
> > the F26 userspace ... but I have run the rawhidenodebug kernels in the past
> > for testing ... it's just nicer and more representative for testing what
> > will end up in the F26 repos to have the kernel built against F26 in the
> > stabilization COPR
> 
> I've suggested in the past that we ship the userspace tools in a
> completely separate package, leaving ONLY kernel bits in the kernel
> SRPM and subpackages.  Partly for this reason, and also because there
> is no NEED to build e.g. perf daily.  I'm willing to put my money
> where my mouth is and do the maintenance on the userspace side if
> people want to pursue this.

+1

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