Dear Debian,
Leaving this package out from Etch maked my life considerebly different.
I had no idea how to apply the vserver patches later found by
cat /usr/src/kernel-patches/all//2.6.18/debian/series/* | grep vserver
after doing
apt-get install linux-tree-2.6.18
and as the stock kernel was not booting, I was fighting with
fs/built-in.o: In function `version_read_proc':
proc_misc.c:(.text+0x3b3e2): undefined reference to `vx_linux_banner'
make[1]: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.18'
make: *** [debian/stamp-build-kernel] Error 2
for a while before discovering the solution.
(Stock vserver kernel would not boot).
Please
a) Revive the package with some documentation or at least pointers (my
blog is http://www.kwu.hu/blog.php, if you don't have anything better).
b) Nag the kernel team to release linux-source-vserver-2.6.18 and
linux-source-xen-vserver-2.6.18 etc so people with less time/knowledge/etc
can compile their own kernel
c) Nag the vserver team to include some hints about the patches needed for
Debian vserver
d) Add a sanity check to the compile script (vserver patch? as a kernel
bugfix patch?) that returns a feasible error message "#ERROR You need
to apply server-version.patch, too!" that is comprehensible (and at
compile time, not at linking time).
e) All of the above
f) Something else
g) Tell me where to re-send this e-mail (I know it might not be a
security issue in the stricter sense - but users abadoning vservers
because this problem is security-related in my mind).
Regards
Elemer
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