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Re: About the -ac branch

To: Jordi Mallach <jordi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: About the -ac branch
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>
Date: 23 Oct 2001 17:17:37 -0500
Cc: Sebastian Dransfeld <sebastid@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
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On Tue, 2001-10-23 at 17:10, Jordi Mallach wrote:

> Hm, we've been looking around, but we don't know which exact dir/kernel
> you're refering too. No kernels looked like they were -ac kernels.

Sorry, they're Red Hat RPMs, but they're based on ac:

ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/download/testing/RH2.4.9-6/kernel-2.4.9-6SGI_XFS_PR1.src.rpm

> Hm. We're poor Debian people. I think "cooker" is what "sid" or
> "unstable" is in our distribution, but browsing the web I only found RPM
> mirrors, not SRPM's, and then, I see "kernel" and "kernel-linus"
> packages. The latter I guess it's pristine Linus tree, and the first one
> must be Mandrake's custom kernel, which I have no clue if it's based on
> -ac or not.

Any recent Mandrake kernel is based on -ac, there should be SRPMS
somewhere in the ftp hierarchy...

> I guess the "one -ac patch every two weeks" wasn't so good? Is it a big
> pain for you?

It is a big pain... as it is, the weekly patches are script-generated. 
Doing an -ac merge is labor-intensive and time consuming...

...but not really ALL that tricky, most of the time.  Any volunteers
with more time than I have?  :)  FWIW, many of those 24 rejects are
probably trivial - fcntl.h for each architecture comes to mind.

Feel free to give it a shot, I'll offer encouragement and advice when I
can.  :)

-Eric


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