Re: Bug#219582: ITP: linux -- Linux 2.4 kernel
This one time, at band camp, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> > > * A package which requires a reboot on updates
> >
> > Oh, now I'm suposed to fix that, too? Bitch upstream for a run-time
> > updatable Linux kernel.
>
> ROTFL
>
> That's not the point, I thought that was obvious, sorry. The point is
> how do you guarantee that this reboot is going to happen?
How do the current kernel packages guarantee this?
Why would Robert's package need to behave any differently?
However, I do think your questions make very intersting challenges for this
project. I do not expect Robert to have all the answers for them just now,
but with some experimentation we can hope to find them.
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