Re: Sarge kernels and Volatile
On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 11:52:48AM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
> * Horms (horms@debian.org) [050801 11:43]:
> > On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 09:28:37AM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
> > > * Horms (horms@debian.org) [050801 08:23]:
> > > > I am wondering if others thing that volatile is a good
> > > > place for us to make uploads of updated 2.6.8 and 2.4.27 kerels for
> > > > Sarge? This would allow us to remove these kernels from unstable/testing
> > > > and still provide maintenence releases for users.
>
> > > Well, my basic approach to that is that nobody of the volatile team can
> > > really do security stuff (or otherwise debugging) for the kernels. So,
> > > if the kernel team is able and willing to do that, we could go that way.
> > > But anything that is in volatile needs to be security-supported till the
> > > distribution is archived (and the security support won't be done by the
> > > security-team).
>
> > What I am really looking for is a way to allow the kernel-team (me?) to
> > provide updates for sarge. Primarily security updates, but there are
> > other important fixes too. The security team hasn't doene kernel updates
> > for a long time now, I guess they are busy with other things. So I think
> > it is valuable for the kernel team to provide updates.
>
>
> Ok. Which updates do you have at hand currently that you want to push
> in?
>
>
> > > Also, you might consider if the current approach to rebuild the kernels
> > > is the best one (but that's of course up to you as long as you do the
> > > work :).
>
> > I am not sure what you are getting at there.
> >
> > The current build process is a mess. We are tying to sort that
> > out with single-source, which is what you can see for 2.6.12.
> > If we can get this working, and convince ourselves that
> > moving sarge from 2.6.8 to 2.6.12 is possible, then yes, we
> > should do that. But for now, I'm really looking for a way
> > to do maintenance on 2.4.27 and 2.6.8.
>
> Yes, that was about my intention as well. So, yes, please move forward
> with 2.4.27 and 2.6.8 and send a list of recommended updates.
I need to go through the BTS and see what else could go in.
But what I have right now is listed at in the following Changelogs.
http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/kernel/trunk/kernel/source/kernel-source-2.6.8-2.6.8/debian/changelog?op=file&rev=0&sc=0
http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/kernel/trunk/kernel/i386/kernel-image-2.6.8-i386-2.6.8/debian/changelog?op=file&rev=0&sc=0
http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/kernel/trunk/kernel-2.4/source/kernel-source-2.4.27-2.4.27/debian/changelog?op=file&rev=0&sc=0
http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/kernel/trunk/kernel-2.4/i386/kernel-image-2.4.27-i386-2.4.27/debian/changelog?op=file&rev=0&sc=0
I am also trying to finalise some build fixes for the powerpc
packages for 2.6.8. In particular, fixing the kernel-headers
packages which are missing some files.
--
Horms
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