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RE: Caution: We deployed a Red Hat-blessed kernel that won't boot on some systems.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phillip Long)
Wed Mar 27 01:05:21 2002
From: "Phillip Long" <longpd@MIT.EDU>
To: "'Bill Cattey'" <wdc@mit.edu>
Cc: <release-team@mit.edu>, <owls@mit.edu>,
"'Garry Zacheiss'" <zacheiss@mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 01:07:14 -0500
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Bill: We're probably not in the kernel business for good reasons. I
don't see a good excuse to get into it now. Let's inquire of Red Hat
where they are on the new kernel and avoid the patch that creates needs
for other patches strategy. When Red Hat, with our encouragement, gets
a new improved kernel ready, we'll test and then deploy that.
Regards,
Phil
Phillip D. Long, Ph.D.
Senior Strategist for the Academic Computing Enterprise
MIT - 77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139 617-452-4038 (v)
longpd@mit.edu 617-253-8665 (f)
-----Original Message-----
From: Garry Zacheiss [mailto:zacheiss@MIT.EDU]
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 11:12 PM
To: Bill Cattey
Cc: release-team@MIT.EDU; owls@MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: Caution: We deployed a Red Hat-blessed kernel that won't
boot on some systems.
>> Question to Release Team: Should we try and do better than Red Hat
here
We haven't yet distributed kernels we've built ourselves, and I don't
think we want to do that in a 9.0 patch release if we can avoid it. I
think warning people the problem exists and pushing out a new kernel
when redhat makes one available is a better strategy.
Garry
