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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: sm-grimoire AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Grimoire] Re: PERFORCE change 24382 for review
  • Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 20:29:02 -0800

Quoting Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>:
> On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 04:00, Robin Cook wrote:
> > gnome-utils2 - Trying the 2.4-kernel-headers hack seems to work
> > also seems to work for gst-plugins.
>
> ON a related topic
> I have found that the -mm1 patch set breaks the patching of 2.6.X headers we
> are doing in the glibc spell. the -mm1 patchset has an extra #define in
> autoconf.h compared to the normal headers and the patch fails to apply. Of
> course this can be fixed but it makes me actually lean towards having a
> proper glibc-kernel-headers spell, with a complete set of headers, already
> *fixed*/patched.
> This will also help with the problem I foresee that every time we
> change/*sanitize* a new header, the user must recast glibc to gain the
> benefits.
> Whether the glibc-kernel-header spell should be based on vanilla or -mm1
> patches I am not 100% sure, i don't really know enough about the differences
> but assume vanilla should be the choice. Extra features in the -mm1 patches
> might cause a not-so graceful failure at a later date.
> Not sure if I will find time to do this in the near future, or if one of you
> will take the ball and run with it, but I thought it important to discuss
> the
> choices and maybe agree on a plan so whoever gets the time to implement it
> knows what should be done
> Hamish

The -mm series just has things that Andrew has accepted into his tree for
improving desktop performance and stability, and most of them will make it
into
the 2.6 tree after a few releases. However, I think we should always use the
vanilla kernel, otherwise why should we chose -mm? Why not -ac (when it comes
back), or -dj, or -wli, etc. ;)

I think a sanitized spell would be best, and safest, for us to implement. I
volunteer my main machine (which is reinstalling from the 0.8 ISO now) as a
test machine. ;)

-sandalle

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