[systemd-devel] newer systemd for rhel7/centos7

[Reindl Harald]

Am 20.11.2014 um 19:22 schrieb Jóhann B. Guðmundsson:
> On 11/20/2014 06:12 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>> Am 20.11.2014 um 19:10 schrieb Jóhann B. Guðmundsson:
>>> On 11/20/2014 04:24 PM, Lukáš Nykrýn wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> rhel7 / centos7 is shipped with heavily patched systemd 208, which does
>>>> not contain new interesting features and for us it is a backporting
>>>> nightmare.
>>>>
>>>> I have prepared an experimental repo with newer version of systemd for
>>>> epel7. Currently it is based on 217 from Fedora rawhide and final goal
>>>> should be 218.
>>>>
>>>> If you are interested, here is a COPR build. Feedback and bug reports
>>>> are as always highly appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/lnykryn/systemd/
>>>>
>>>> Lukas
>>>
>>> Wont you break your RHEL support if you run this?
>>
>> given that the OP has a @redhat.com address i guess the intention is
>> to test and prepare a official RHEL update over the time
>>
>> reading "and for us it is a backporting nightmare" makes that more
>> than a guess
>
> That's a given and not what I asked.

but that's very likely true

what you asked don't matter since this is a *developer list* and so no 
place where a RHEL customer with support is expected to jump blindly and 
try unsupported packages

> Red Hat should be supplying it's own QA resources to test it's own and
> upcoming RHEL product releases instead of be reaching out to the
> community *to do it for them*  and leach of it + he does not mention, if
> you intend on testing this on RHEL if it breaks your RHEL support
> contract or not ( which most likely it does ) hence the question

no idea from where your personal vendetta against Redhat is coming (not 
only in that response, over years, everywhere) but why don't you just 
ignore anything containing the company name?

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