On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 11:44 PM, ToddAndMargo <[email protected]> wrote: > On 05/23/2015 04:02 PM, Tom H wrote: >> On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 4:20 PM, ToddAndMargo <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> On 05/23/2015 01:10 PM, Jamie Duncan wrote: >>>> >>>> How far back should red hat port fixes? The policy is public and adhered >>>> to... >>> >>> They should just follow their word. They state 2020. >>> Support means support. Freezing all the bugs in >>> is not support. >>> >>> And Red Hat has seemed to have lost interest in 6 >>> now that they have 7. >>> >>> Here is another example: >>> >>> "livecd-tools" is horrible. The stick you create refuses >>> to boot in most computers. The "persistence" is trashed. >>> There is a 3GB barrier on ext3 partitions. Yada, yada, yada. >>> >>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1220107 >>> >>> "I'll make updates for specific problems, but I'm not >>> going to backport anything to rhel6." >>> >>> In other words, don't hold your breath. >> >> BCL then explains: "I'll work on fixing those specific things when I >> get a chance. But there won't be a total rebase of the code, specific >> fixes only." >> >> It's, again, an RFE bug... > > And BCL also said: > > "Status: CLOSED WONTFIX" > > I tagged the bug as RFE because I was being polite. > I have found that sometimes it is better for them to discover > it is a bug.
The 3 GB limit is a feature not a bug; in the same way that, for example, the ext4 maximum filesystem size is different in SL6 and SL7. You're asking for that 3 GB feature to be enhanced. BCL has to consider how complex the fix'll be to backport and keep in mind that this fix might introduce a bug. So his default reaction to an RFE _HAS_ to be to NACK it and, if it's something that he thinks is good, integrate it into a future version.
