On 11/13/06, Dr. Edgar Alwers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sunday 12 November 2006 17:56, Ken Moffat wrote:
> Without looking back at the cmails you refer to, I think you may be > doing Dan an injustice - taking a patch from fedora is almost > certainly a correct way to deal with blfs problems caused by using > the kernel's own sanitised headers, because it was the fedora kernel > headers maintainer who did the work to get sanitised headers into the > kernel, and fedora used them to rebuild all their packages. Sorry, I did not know this. Anyway, it was not at all my intention to issue a critic, only a suggestion
No skin off my hide. You may very well be right that this is a sledgehammer approach. My general approach is just "Fedora has talented _real_ programmers, they're probably doing the right thing". Plus, anything on Fedora is seeing much wider testing than what we're doing here. So, that hack is probably OK or it wouldn't be in there since lots of people would have broken nfs-utils. Looking again at the Fedora commit, it seems that getkversion and getiversion are just some random helper programs and not used by the rest of nfs-utils. http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/devel/nfs-utils/nfs-utils-1.0.9-compile.patch?rev=1.1&view=log To really pursue the right answer, though, you'd probably want to ask on the nfs-utils. Barring any help there, you'd want to mail the kernel list with a direct CC to David Woodhouse who's driving the header operation.
> Probably best to open a ticket for this in blfs trac, so that it > doesn't get forgotten when blfs-svn starts to move forward. > Who should do this ? I am not familiar, but the first time could be an experience
Now would be a great time to start. Go here (be patient, the server is way overburdened): http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/ Create yourself an account, then the "New Ticket" link should show up in the toolbar. Additionally, you might want to look at the current tickets to see if this is already addressed. If you do create a new ticket, please set the Milestone to Future or 6.3.0 at least. What we're targetting for 6.2.0 doesn't include the new headers. Thanks. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
