On Sat, 09 Apr 2005 16:55:23 -0400, Jurij Smakov wrote: > On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, Andres Salomon wrote: > >> The way this works in practice is; I get i386 in shape, release k-s >> 2.6.x-1. Svenl gets powerpc ready, and dannf gets ia64 ready (though >> they don't coordinate), and Sven releases k-s 2.6.x-2. Horms throws >> some security fixes in SVN; Joshk gets sparc ready, and releases k-s >> 2.6.x-3. Due to the security patches, other archs rebuild against >> 2.6.x-3. And so on. > > Don't you think that the way you described (and that's the way it works > now) is the major reason behind the very long times it takes to push > through the security updates on all architectures? That way it make take
Not at all. Security updates would still take a long time if you had to announce a k-s release, wait for 8 or so architectures to say "ok, we're ready to go!", do a release, and then wait for their uploads. What causes this process to take so long is the fact that kernels aren't built for every k-s upgrade; that should be fixed once we have k-s generating images. > people a long time to make k-i even build against 2.6.x-3 due to broken > arch-specific patches, missing/added kernel options, etc. I would rather > proactively track the changes in k-s, making sure that new k-i may be > built against it immediately. > That should always be the case, unless a security update affects something on your architecture, or you screw up something on your arch w/ a prior patch. :) >> If people want to give advance notice of a k-s release, that's fine, >> but it shouldn't be a requirement. > > I am not saying that it should be a requirement, just something everyone > can benefit from (especially in the case of ABI-breaking changes in > k-s). ABI-breaking changes are a special case; unfortunately, we don't have any infrastructure in place to handle that right now. ABI breaking changes should definitely be given more consideration, and announced on d-k so that arch kernel maintainers know to bump the ABINAME on their packages. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
