On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 08:33:00PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Robert Millan wrote: > > > >How bad? I'm happily running the Linux kernel without System.map right now. > > klogd will be unable to look up symbols, and ps and top need it for > wchan to be displayable.
I'm so scared. wchan won't be displayable! > That doesn't deal with the problem I described. How do you prevent > System.map and the running kernel getting out of sync when you upload a > new version of the linux package? I don't see why should I address that. But don't worry, if it turns out there's a reason to, I'm pretty capable of solving it. You're mixing trivial maintainer issues with this ITP. It's very pity of you if you're doing it on purpose. -- Robert Millan "[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work." -- J.R.R.T, Ainulindale (Silmarillion)
