Re: supporting ext3 in A. Bunk's 2.4.x potato kernel packages
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote:
> Hi,
Hi Eric,
> I'm about building ext3 2.4.x kernel packages for potato, based on A.
> Bunk's packages.
>
> However, ext3 depends on util-linux (>=2.11) and this version doesn't
> appear on Adrian's page.
>
> Do you know of any incompatibility between util-linux_2.11* and potato
> ? Are there know problems regarding version of libc6 used ?
>
> If not I guess I'd send those potato versions of util-linux (>=2.11)
> to Adrian so they can be included on his page.
upgrading util-linux to >=2.11 would also mean that I'd also have to
upgrade kbd and console-tools. When I thought about this I came to the
conclusion that ext3 support isn't worth the risk that I could break one
of these three important packages for the many users of my packages.
> Thanks.
Sorry
Adrian
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