Hi SL-DEVEL list,


I know SL at least since SL4/SL5 ... and since RHEL/CentOS put out freely available all needed real-time packages starting with 7.1, we also switched to use local kernel-rt rebuilds (from git.centos src's without a change) running on SL7.1/7.2/7.3 and soon 7.4.


not sure if that had been discussed before, but I am not aware of it => what do you think / what are the chances to see an official inclusion of all needed real-time packages to the SL-repos? source packages are completely available and would include the following packages:


---- list from the current rhel-server-rt-7.4*.iso (while all their src-packages are available at git.centos!) ----

kernel-rt-3.10.0-693.rt56.617.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debug-3.10.0-693.rt56.617.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debug-devel-3.10.0-693.rt56.617.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-devel-3.10.0-693.rt56.617.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-doc-3.10.0-693.rt56.617.el7.noarch.rpm
kernel-rt-trace-3.10.0-693.rt56.617.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-trace-devel-3.10.0-693.rt56.617.el7.x86_64.rpm
rt-setup-1.59-5.el7.noarch.rpm
rt-tests-1.0-11.el7.x86_64.rpm
rtcheck-0.7.7-6.el7.x86_64.rpm
rtctl-1.13-2.el7.noarch.rpm
rteval-2.14-1.el7.noarch.rpm
rteval-common-2.14-1.el7.noarch.rpm
rteval-loads-1.4-1.el7.noarch.rpm
tuned-profiles-realtime-2.8.0-5.el7.noarch.rpm
---- ----


At least the tuned-profiles-realtime is already in the SL7.4 RC1 iso, but the main rt* packages to setup the real-time environment are currently not included and so are the kernel-rt & kernel-rt-devel etc packages.


Currently I manually rebuild them locally when an update comes around, but this only happens for kernel(-rt) updates and sometimes at new point-releases for the rt*-packages. I think it would be really cool, not just for us to see the real-time addons directly prebuild in some of the SL7 repos (since those are mainly kernels, easiest might be base-packages + security for updates ... or maybe a separate sl7-rt.repo), to give everyone interested or in need a possibility to make their SL-environment real-time capable and massively reduce latencies in the system.


This is of course just a suggestion, but I am also interested to learn about the "official standing of the SL-team" as well as seeing this topic discussed here.


best regads and thanks for your responses,

RJ