Re: 2.6.14-rc4 patch audit
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 04:36:59PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 08:11:40PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 07:43:02PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > In the light of this, i would indeed vote to move our package to 2.6.14-rc4
> > > (versioned at 2.6.13.99.rc4 or something, and maybe with 2.6.14-0 abi name),
> >
> > 2.6.13+2.6.14-r4 or 2.6.14~rc4, I don't know if the later is now
> > supported by dak. Abiname is 2.6.14-rc4 without additional suffix.
>
> Hi Bastian, ...
>
> We were going to aim for a 2.6.14-rc4 release tomorrow, a bit in advance of
> schedule, but the current package seems to be in better shape than 2.6.13-1
> previously available (it built on amd64 and i385, and now we have powerpc and
> sparc in addition i hear).
>
> Anyway, horms did some fixes i didn't fully understand, and you undid it, and
> since you are kind of the expert on that, i wonder if you are planing to fix
> it the right way or not, and if you could provide us with a bit of information
> about what the problem is ?
My fixes are pretty easy to understsand. Without them the -rc4 gets
interprated as an ABI name, and late in the build kernel-doc will
fail, because kernel-package wants it to be 2.6.14-rc4, as per
version.h, but control listgs 2.6.14. Well, that and every package
is 2.6.14 abi rc4, instead of 2.6.14-4, abi 1.
There is seconday problem, that apply needs to be taught how
to deal with 2.6.13+2.6.14-rc4, vs 2.6.14-rc4, and it needs
to be told that 2.6.14-rc4 is upstream, becuse it can't tell
that 2.6.14-rc4 isn't 2.6.14 with a debnumber of rc4.
In sort, run dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc and the
build will fail towards the end.
If you want to use the original code, I'd suggest changing
the version number to 2.6.14-1. I doubt anything more sophisticated will
work.
Incidently, the ABI can be changed in debian/arch/
I'd like to understand the need to overload the verison number
even more than it is already.
--
Horms
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