On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 12:04 +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: > Lance Albertson wrote: > > I was actually just thinking about WOLK today and how I never got around > > to putting the newest builds in the tree. For now keep them in there. > > I'll email upstream to see if whats the status on development for WOLK > > these days. The mailing lists have been quiet for the most part, so > > we'll see. It may be based on 2.4.20 but its no where near to what > > 2.4.20 is ;). Its closer to a 2.6 kernel by now with its latest > > versions. > > 2.4.20 came out in 2002. You'd have thought they might base it off something > newer by now...
I'm not sure why he did it that way. I know he essentially patched in the later versions (crazy I know). > > Infra currently decommissioned to the two boxes we were running WOLK on, > > so we don't currently have a need for it from that side of things. > > > > I'll report back when I find out whats going on! > > Ok. The main issue is that keeping old kernels around is a maintenance > nightmare with the security patches, etc. Also, this kernel is so heavily > patched that it would be impossible for us to support it. On top of that, > there doesn't seem to be any demand for it - we have only ever had a few bug > reports for it, and we've never recieved a bump request for the latest version > which is months behind the last official release. > > I'll at least be cleaning out the two older versions (4.9-r21 and 4.11-r17) > over the next few days. Yeah, I agree sadly. Since I haven't seen much activity on their devel lists I'd have to say things have pretty much stopped. Give me a few days to see if we get a response from the upstream author as to the status of the project before we totally axe it. -- Lance Albertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo Infrastructure | Operations Manager --- GPG Public Key: <http://www.ramereth.net/lance.asc> Key fingerprint: 0423 92F3 544A 1282 5AB1 4D07 416F A15D 27F4 B742 ramereth/irc.freenode.net
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