Re: XFree86 update question

[Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>]

On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 03:28:37PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 03:44:56PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> 
> > You're not thinking.  Pristine source here means -WITH THE DEBIAN KERNEL
> > PATCH APPLIED-.  Or from BitKeeper directly.  If I do this, it will go
> > in to BitKeeper.  If you try to use kernel.org kernels, you're shit out
> > of luck to start with.
> 
> bullshit, i am running ftp.kernel.org 2.2.19 with Alan Cox's pre10
> patch applied, no debian patches, no bitkeeper patches, no other
> patches period.  before that i ran 2.2.19 straight from kernel.org, no
> patches at all.  
> 
> 2.4.10 will probably also be perfectly fine on powerpc.
> master.penguinppc.org is running 2.4.8 from kernel.org, no patches at
> all and its working perfectly.  
> 
> this is pure FUD on your part.

So Tom's gotten ahead of me on merges.  It's still generally true.  It
will also go into kernel.org if I put it into bitkeeper.  This is all
dodging the actual issue.

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer