thx for all the replies; will get building once i have a spare moment ;)
On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 20:21 +0000, Daniel Drake wrote: > Hi Stephen, > > stephen o'grady wrote: > > I think this is a question for Robert, but am sending to list just in > > case any of the other Gentoo users are interested. > > How about the current Gentoo kernel maintainer ? :) > > > There's been some recent chatter around inotify in Fedora/SuSE etc, but > > as a Gentoo user I'm wondering if Robert - or anyone else for that > > matter - has an update on inotify versioning in gentoo-dev-sources. > > > > Robert did a great job getting the Gentoo devs to include it, but when I > > was looking to upgrade to the latest and greatest Beagle, I saw from the > > wiki (http://www.beaglewiki.org/index.php/inotify-Enabled%20Linux% > > 20Kernel#Gentoo) that Gentoo's fallen a bit behind in terms of versions. > > The 2.6.10 releases come with inotify 0.17. I've been holding off keeping > this > branch unnecessarily up-to-date with the latest inotify versions because some > users got bitten when I did this in the past. While there are no open bugs > related to the current version of inotify I keep in > gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.10, > I'm not inclined to update it - I try to make each version more stable with > each release rather than taking risks :) > > > Being curious as to when - or if - I might get 0.18 - as I'm sure a few > > other Gentoo folks are I thought I'd ping the list. > > I make the more major changes in sync with Linus' releases. So our first > 2.6.11 patchset will include Robert Love's latest inotify patch at the time > of > release. > > You can see more about the my preliminary 2.6.11 work at the end of this page: > http://dev.gentoo.org/~dsd/gentoo-dev-sources/releases.htm > I am aware that there is a newer inotify patch now, it will be updated before > the initial 2.6.11 release is made. > > Thanks, > Daniel _______________________________________________ Dashboard-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dashboard-hackers
