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What is Oracle going to do with the userland/RPM compat with RHEL? It's wonderful that they try to ship every fix from the LTS kernel tree and that UEK users al

What is Oracle going to do with the userland/RPM compat with RHEL? It's wonderful that they try to ship every fix from the LTS kernel tree and that UEK users already don't have an expectation of a 100% identical kernel. But you still need userland compatibility, which will be much harder to ensure given the sheer number of RPM packages out there.

freedomben 3y ago
The Linux kernel has a pretty strict "don't break userland" policy, and if it does it's a bug, so I wouldn't expect using a newer kernel to be a problem.
- smarx007 3y ago
  No, I meant to ask how Oracle is going to ensure that they deliver 10s of thousands RPM packages to be sufficiently compatible with those that RHEL ships (following the rhelgate or whatever we should call it).
- AshamedCaptain 3y ago
  Ha. The contents of /sys for example change about every other release, and yes, there's obviously software which depends on it.
  - dezgeg 3y ago
    Could you point to some examples of such breakage?
    - freedomben 3y ago
      Here's an example where user space broke, and Linus gets pissed. "SHUT THE FUCK UP" to the maintainer who was defending the kernel change[1][2]. [1]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/75 https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/75 [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36805308 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36805308