<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'DejaVu Sans Mono'; font-size:9pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">Hi Roger,<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>On Saturday 30 May 2009 10:02:31 Roger Leigh wrote:<br>
> On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 02:33:38AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:<br>
> > On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Marco d'Itri wrote:<br>
> > > On Mar 19, Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net> wrote:<br>
> > > > With respect to #494001, I would like to determine the minimum<br>
> > > > version of the linux kernel we will<br>
> > > For the new udev package[1] I am trying *very* hard to keep it working<br>
> > > even with 2.6.18 kernels long enough to be able to finish the upgrade,<br>
> > > but I can tell you that 2.6.22 is currently required to support<br>
> > > important features like persistent device names and this will only get<br>
> > > "worse" with time so next year I may end out requiring 2.6.26 anyway.<br>
> > > <br>
> > > Also expect problems from a modern udev and lenny kernels, because they<br>
> > > have CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED defined.<br>
> > > <br>
> > > I agree that there should be no version check in the init scripts, just<br>
> > > symlink mtab and almost everything will work fine.<br>
> > <br>
> > So be it, then. Let's switch to the new mode unconditionally... since udev<br>
> > is going to force our hands, might as well at least get something good out<br>
> > of it and simplify things on the initscripts end.<br>
> > <br>
> > A NEWS entry will be required to warn people using older kernels, though.<br>
> <br>
> Has any further progress been made on this? Are there any changes to the<br>
> patch you are waiting on me for?<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>I think I applied the patch already to sysvinit package SVN [0]. Sorry have<br>
been a bit busy since then. We need to start talking about getting some<br>
new uploads happening, but there are quite a few changes I have made which<br>
need review but noone with much time to review 'em.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Can you have a good look at [0] for errors please?<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>[0] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-sysvinit-commits/2009-May/001220.html<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Thanks, Kel.</p></body></html>