[CentOS] maintaining patches across releases

2013-03-06 Thread Keith Keller
Hi all, I have what might be a foolish question about patching packages. I am not sure exactly how to phrase the question, so please follow up if it seems as though I'm not being clear. I was looking at this bug which my machines are currently experiencing: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.

Re: [CentOS] maintaining patches across releases

2013-03-06 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Keith Keller wrote: > Hi all, > > I have what might be a foolish question about patching packages. I am > not sure exactly how to phrase the question, so please follow up if it > seems as though I'm not being clear. > > I was looking at this bug which my machines a

Re: [CentOS] maintaining patches across releases

2013-03-06 Thread Keith Keller
On 2013-03-07, Akemi Yagi wrote: > > You may want to check this out: > > http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=6087 > > My understanding is that "There is no side effect other than the load. > There are not performance issues with the ailds behaving like this." > Is this not the case ? As far as I c

Re: [CentOS] maintaining patches across releases

2013-03-06 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Keith Keller wrote: > On 2013-03-07, Akemi Yagi wrote: >> >> You may want to check this out: >> >> http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=6087 >> >> My understanding is that "There is no side effect other than the load. >> There are not performance issues with the aild

Re: [CentOS] maintaining patches across releases

2013-03-06 Thread Keith Keller
On 2013-03-07, Akemi Yagi wrote: > > I thought about applying the patch to the centosplus kernel but > decided not to bother because it looked like a "non-issue". But it you > think it's worth the fix, that can be done. It will be even better if > you supply the actual patch for the CentOS kernel.

Re: [CentOS] maintaining patches across releases

2013-03-08 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 8:16 PM, Keith Keller wrote: > On 2013-03-07, Akemi Yagi wrote: >> >> I thought about applying the patch to the centosplus kernel but >> decided not to bother because it looked like a "non-issue". But it you >> think it's worth the fix, that can be done. It will be even bet

Re: [CentOS] maintaining patches across releases

2013-03-08 Thread Keith Keller
On 2013-03-08, Akemi Yagi wrote: > > I looked at the patch again -- it was apparently not for the 6.3 > kernel and I was not 100% sure about applying it at that time. But now > with the 6.4 kernel, it cleanly applies. > > While not serious, some users are finding this bug to be problematic > when

Re: [CentOS] maintaining patches across releases

2013-03-08 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Keith Keller wrote: > On 2013-03-08, Akemi Yagi wrote: >> >> I looked at the patch again -- it was apparently not for the 6.3 >> kernel and I was not 100% sure about applying it at that time. But now >> with the 6.4 kernel, it cleanly applies. >> >> While not serio

Re: [CentOS] maintaining patches across releases

2013-03-09 Thread Keith Keller
On 2013-03-08, Akemi Yagi wrote: > > The only place the plus kernels are "documented" with up-to-date info > is the CentOS bug tracker: > > CentOS-6: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4586 > CentOS-5: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4100 That's perfect. It seems completely reasonable to sugg

Re: [CentOS] maintaining patches across releases

2013-03-13 Thread Keith Keller
On 2013-03-08, Akemi Yagi wrote: > > The only place the plus kernels are "documented" with up-to-date info > is the CentOS bug tracker: > > CentOS-6: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4586 At least for CentOS 6 it looks like the new centosplus kernel is out. Thanks Akemi! I have it running on a

Re: [CentOS] maintaining patches across releases

2013-03-13 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Keith Keller wrote: > On 2013-03-08, Akemi Yagi wrote: >> >> The only place the plus kernels are "documented" with up-to-date info >> is the CentOS bug tracker: >> >> CentOS-6: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4586 > > At least for CentOS 6 it looks like the ne

Re: [CentOS] maintaining patches across releases

2013-03-25 Thread James Pearson
Keith Keller wrote: > I was looking at this bug which my machines are currently experiencing: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=883905 > > The proposed patch is literally one new line in the XFS codebase. So > since the patch is so straightforward, I had a crazy idea that I would >