Hi On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 12:33:33AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 08:45:21AM +0100, Ola Lundqvist wrote: > > Do you know if there will be more updates to the kernel after -8? > > Yes, there will.
Ok, good to know. Upsream and I are subscribed to the package tracking system for such uploads so we should be informed quite quickly. This means that I do not have to bother that 7.1 version do not apply cleanly against the version in > > If so I need to be prepared as that will probably break this patch. > > Why is this patch so fragile? If it breaks that easily, it hardly seems > releasable -- how do we protect against it being broken by security updates? the patch is very big (about 700k) and applies to huge amount of places in the kernel. From 2.6.19 somekind of hook functionality is in place as far as I understand, but for 2.6.18 it is not possible to use that. I do not know if it solves all the problems though. The problem have arized everytime the kernel team change from 2.6.18 to 2.6.18.3 and then to 2.6.18.6. I do not think a problem have arized when just doing minor updates, but I do not know for sure and it depends on the update. But security updates may need to be coordinated. I assume that same problem can arize for vserver and xen patch, but those patches are a part of the kernel source nowdays. I have requested openvz to be part of that as well but not yet got any response. See #392015 for my request of that. Regards, // Ola > -- > Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS > Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- --- Ola Lundqvist systemkonsult --- M Sc in IT Engineering ---- / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Annebergsslingan 37 \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] 654 65 KARLSTAD | | http://opalsys.net/ Mobile: +46 (0)70-332 1551 | \ gpg/f.p.: 7090 A92B 18FE 7994 0C36 4FE4 18A1 B1CF 0FE5 3DD9 / --------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
