Hi,
I've been wrangling with usermode-sources maintenance for some time now,
but I don't have any interest in it and have no clue how it works.
The current version in Portage is a bit out of date and faces the usual
minor kernel security issues.
usermode-sources is actually just Paolo Giarrusso's -bs tree, which is
just a small set of patches on top of mainline Linux. The mainline
kernel actually includes out-of-the-box UML support, but Paolo maintains
a set of patches, most of which end up going into the next kernel
release. So by removing this package we aren't dropping major
functionality from Gentoo.
However, the -bs tree does include a couple of small features which
probably won't go into the kernel any time soon. Some users probably use
these, and Paolo would prefer to see these kept in Gentoo since I think
we are the only distro who package his kernel.
So, is anyone interested in maintaining this? It's not a lot of work,
Paolo makes the patchset, and you simply combine that with genpatches in
the ebuild, and stick it in Portage. There are occasional bug reports,
but Paolo has an account on our bugzilla and is always keen to help.
Really the only requirement is that you are a UML user and you have some
interest in it.
Any volunteers?
If not, this package will be removed in 30 days. It will be put in
package.mask sometime over the next day or two due to the open security
bugs.
Thanks,
Daniel
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