Re: cramfs problems, also file(1)
>>"skaya" == skaya <skaya@enix.org> writes:
skaya> of course. but in this specific case, the human is asking "build
skaya> me a kernel package --with initrd support",
With you so far.
skaya> and this support requires a specific patch. if this patch is
skaya> not applied, the package will be unusable.
At the moment. How long is this going to be the case? Is the
patch never going to go into the kernel? Is there never going to be
another patch that does similar things? Are your patch-detecting
patterns never ever going to go out of date?
If the answer is that things may indeed be mutable, who is
going to keep track of the mutability? How are you going to handle
people using kernel-package with different variants of patches and
kernel-versions?
skaya> testing whether or not the patch is applied would save a lot
skaya> of time for people with funky kernels (i.e. not using debian
skaya> sources for kernels).
Umm, no. The human said: make it with initrd, and that is what
we are going to do. We are not going to make half-baked guesses about
whether the human is wrong, on the assumption that the patch applied
is the same one we know about.
skaya> I'm just wanting to avoid what seems to be a not-so-uncommon
skaya> human error.
This solution is not the correct one for the problem. (I would
say reading is, but ...). I am most certainly not going to build in a
dependency on external patches and a related database of checks and
patterns about when the modified behaviour ought to occur.
manoj
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