Re: Bug#219582: ITP: linux -- Linux 2.4 kernel
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 08:33:00PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> Robert Millan wrote:
> >
> >How bad? I'm happily running the Linux kernel without System.map right now.
>
> klogd will be unable to look up symbols, and ps and top need it for
> wchan to be displayable.
I'm so scared. wchan won't be displayable!
> That doesn't deal with the problem I described. How do you prevent
> System.map and the running kernel getting out of sync when you upload a
> new version of the linux package?
I don't see why should I address that. But don't worry, if it turns out
there's a reason to, I'm pretty capable of solving it.
You're mixing trivial maintainer issues with this ITP. It's very pity of you
if you're doing it on purpose.
--
Robert Millan
"[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the
thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he
gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work."
-- J.R.R.T, Ainulindale (Silmarillion)
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