On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 12:46:18PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > Fine with me. So let's create an alitoh project for the kernel, and a > subversion repo. Anyone is already looking into this ?
Ok, Martin? > > For 2.2/2.4 let's follow his suggestion to not do any major changes, > > let's just try to move everyone to a single kernel-source for the > > patches to reduce overhead for the security team. > > That means, a single kernel-source 2.4 and 2.2 version. Yes. Let's have a single kerne-source-2.2.x/2.4.x for sarge and make sure all architectures build from it using their kernel-patch-$arch > > Given the feedback I've heard so far it seems like 2.6 for sarge will > > only be for x86/alpha/ppc/ia64 and maybe s390. Given all of these don't > > require major patches and 2.6 isn't the main kernel for sarge I'd love > > to see a common packaging for those. > > OWell, i still think that keeping the flexibility of allowing a per arch > patch set would be a good idea, even if this patchset is empty or almost > so. Let's start small though, create the subversion repo, and have the > kernel-source package moved in there. And then the porter will move > their own package to the subversion repo, and we can take a second phase > of moving patches from the per arch patches to the common kernel source > package once that is done. Small steps make for better going forward. Okay, let's move forward in small steps.. > Also, another variable in this equation, is the handling of the NEW > queue. The powerpc 2.6.6-5 package is currently artificially hold back > in the NEW queue, and i have faced this kind of problems previously, > well mostly due to the intrusion, but still the package was uploaded at > least 3 weeks previous to the intrusion, so ... > > I believe that we have to think about a solution to this if we want o > have quality kernel packages, and fast reaction to problems. A dedicated > kernel ftp-master maybe ? If that's doable it would certainly be nice. Who is ftp-master anyway and what qualifies a DD as such? i.e. could a DD in the kernel team become ftp-master?