3 Mar 2009 18:52
Any prospect of a new 2.6.27 rpm?
Hey all (Hey Pavel), This is a two part question... I know everyone's busy with lots of things and I know cutting and testing an rpm release is a lot of work, but... I'm wondering if there's a new 2.6.27 rpm waiting in the wings for release any time soon? The last 2.6.27 (aivazovsky) had a very serious problem in the IPv6 firewall code that got quickly patched. I had to abandon that one. I see there's been a lot of committs to that git branch that look pretty serious as well. Anything standing in the way? Now, outside of that, I do pull the git repository and I can build things from that but I use rpm for managing the packages on my system and would really rather avoid building straight from the git repository and installing on the system. On top of that, with rpm I can be sure I've got all the other patches straight and all the build options straight and it's much easier to copy between systems for testing on other boxes. I can't use the binary rpm's from the site anyways (due to config option problems and due to the fact that they're built with a gcc 3.x compiler where all my Fedora systems are all on 4.x and I have other external modules to compile where the compilers must agree) so I'm always rebuilding the rpm's anyways. So... What's the procedure (is there one) for generating the appropriate "patch" to incorporate into the rpm build. For the last 2.6.27 build, there was the patch-ovz-aivazovsky file which was then rolled in with the original sources plus some configs and some other patches into the rpmbuild/SOURCES directory for the rpmbuild. How do I go from the git repo and the base source tarball and derive that patch(Continue reading)
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