Hi Roger, On Saturday 30 May 2009 10:02:31 Roger Leigh wrote: > On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 02:33:38AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > > On Mar 19, Roger Leigh <rle...@codelibre.net> wrote: > > > > With respect to #494001, I would like to determine the minimum > > > > version of the linux kernel we will > > > For the new udev package[1] I am trying *very* hard to keep it working > > > even with 2.6.18 kernels long enough to be able to finish the upgrade, > > > but I can tell you that 2.6.22 is currently required to support > > > important features like persistent device names and this will only get > > > "worse" with time so next year I may end out requiring 2.6.26 anyway. > > > > > > Also expect problems from a modern udev and lenny kernels, because they > > > have CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED defined. > > > > > > I agree that there should be no version check in the init scripts, just > > > symlink mtab and almost everything will work fine. > > > > So be it, then. Let's switch to the new mode unconditionally... since udev > > is going to force our hands, might as well at least get something good out > > of it and simplify things on the initscripts end. > > > > A NEWS entry will be required to warn people using older kernels, though. > > Has any further progress been made on this? Are there any changes to the > patch you are waiting on me for?
I think I applied the patch already to sysvinit package SVN [0]. Sorry have been a bit busy since then. We need to start talking about getting some new uploads happening, but there are quite a few changes I have made which need review but noone with much time to review 'em. Can you have a good look at [0] for errors please? [0] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-sysvinit-commits/2009-May/001220.html Thanks, Kel.