Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 26 Mar 2003 22:02:54 +0100 | From | Jörn Engel <> | Subject | Re: Ptrace hole / Linux 2.2.25 |
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On Wed, 26 March 2003 12:41:35 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > > > > That looks like ugly can of worms to me. > > > "what kernel do you have?" > > > "2.4.25 and it did two downloads; I was > > > compiling it on the friday night"
It look like a good thing to me, iff done right. iff.
> > So make one of the patches change extra-version to -errataN or the like.
And the script doing the automatic downloads should refuse to apply any patch that doesn't change extra-version. When something like this happens to -ac2, people download it manually and know, it is in fact -ac3. But here...
> Basically what we're talking about now is someone to maintain an "errata > tree" -- someone to maintain sub-point releases (2.4.25.1, .2, etc.) and > to decide what those are. > > The other option would be to have it called something like > 2.4.25-ep36-ep42-ep96 if errata patches 36, 42 and 96 were applied. > > I think sub-point releases are better, since it at least cuts down the > number of possible combinations.
I agree. There should be no point in finer granularity than sub-point releases. Even those should be kept as small as possible, completely empty if possible.
Jörn
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