On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 03:34:00PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 03:02:46PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 07:58:36PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > Anything else is a maintainance nightmare in the long term. > > > > Sure, but it provides for localized testing before large scale > > deployement later on. > > Please also note that having different kernel sources for each > architecture is also a nightmare for the security team, who actually > have to maintain this once Sarge is released.
Well, i have been doing security builds for powerpc, and even apus, altough i was not officially the apus maintainer, so i know what you speak from from the inside. I don't find this particularly more a nightmare than if it was a common source. Sure the fact that the kernel-source for 2.2.10 or something such got lost was problematic, but this is probably more of a failure of the debian archive and pool system than really a problem for the kernel-patch system. Friendly, Sven Luther
