On 06/13/2011 11:06 PM, Steven Haigh wrote: > On 14/06/2011 9:33 AM, Shawn Thompson wrote: >> There's already a bunch of "contrib" repositories for EL packages >> (repoforge, atrpms, etc), maybe talk to them? > > I was thinking about this - but a properly working Xen configuration > requires a new kernel RPM. I was looking at packaging the kernel as - > say - kernel-dom0-whatever and including that. > > I believe the policy of other repos do not accept kernel RPMs. I am > happy to be corrected if this is not correct! > For SL6 we have moved away from having our own contrib repository. We're trying to keep it that way by utilizing the EPEL, rpmforge, elrepo and atrpms repositories. But that doesn't mean you cannot setup your own repository and tell people about it. As far as I know, none of the other repo's have kernels in them, other that elrepo, which has one along with very strong warnings that the kernel is not supported. I believe one of the reasons why these repo's do not have kernels is because of the commitment. The kernel is a very complicated package, constantly changing, needing security and bug fixes. Scientific Linux is also a long term enterprise release, each major release lasts 7 years. To maintain a kernel in a repo means you have to deal with security and bug fixes for 6 to 7 years. Troy -- __________________________________________________ Troy Dawson [log in to unmask] (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/SCF/FEF/SLSMS Group __________________________________________________