Re: Unblock (or better solutions) for ksplice ( 0.8.7)

2008-10-23 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Luca Bruno [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know, this was basically an unfortunate timing, my bad. Given that there isn't a solution, and the status quo is not safe, the only conclusion is to not release with 0.8.7-1. Should I explicitely request a removal of 0.8.7-1 from Lenny or are you already

Re: Unblock (or better solutions) for ksplice ( 0.8.7)

2008-10-19 Thread Luca Bruno
Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt scrisse: Luca Bruno [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So I'm asking what you suggest to do: - unblock 0.9.0-1 for lenny as is - upload the new 0.9.1-1 to sid and then unblock it for lenny I think it's too late for both of these options. Sorry, but accepting a few

Re: Unblock (or better solutions) for ksplice ( 0.8.7)

2008-10-14 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Luca Bruno [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So I'm asking what you suggest to do: - unblock 0.9.0-1 for lenny as is - upload the new 0.9.1-1 to sid and then unblock it for lenny I think it's too late for both of these options. Sorry, but accepting a few thousand new lines of code just a few weeks

Re: Unblock (or better solutions) for ksplice ( 0.8.7)

2008-10-14 Thread Luca Bruno
Adeodato Simó scrisse: * Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt [Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:11:18 +0200]: - upload 0.9.0-1lenny0 to t-p-u with the backported offset patch Could you give a rough estimate how big this patch would be? AFAICT, this option was about accepting 0.9.0 in its entirety, plus a

Unblock (or better solutions) for ksplice ( 0.8.7)

2008-10-08 Thread Luca Bruno
Hi, sorry if this mail comes a bit late in the release cycle, but I've recently got a mail exchange with ksplice upstream, and our actual situation isn't optimal. Basically ksplice 0.8.7 pre-dates 2.6.26 kernel and has various serious safety issues which can crash the whole kernel: - race