On 9/22/09, Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:05:14PM +0200, Natanael Copa wrote: ... >> sed -i -e 's/EXTRAVERSION = \.6/EXTRAVERSION = .7/' \ >> patch-2.6.30.6-vs2.3.0.36.14-pre8.diff \ >> > patch-2.6.30.7-vs2.3.0.36.14-pre8.diff >> >> and upload that? > > nope, that would be untested and that's not the way we > do it .. besides anybody can ignore/fix a kernel version > change easily ... It helps people who build precompiled packages for distros. > 2.6.30.x is not long term supported (yet) and so we > moved on to the 2.6.31 kernel, why not use that version > instead? Because upgrading to 2.6.x releases will almost for sure break things for users. Upgrading from 2.6.x.y will normally fix more things for users than it breaks things. I don't switch from 2.6.30.y to 2.6.31.y just before a new distro release, alpine 1.9. >> It builds here atleast. > > that's good to know, does it boot and work too? I haven't rolled it out for production yet but the testsript works: . alpine-netbook:~$ sudo bash testme.sh Linux-VServer Test [V0.17] Copyright (C) 2003-2006 H.Poetzl chcontext is working. chbind is working. Linux 2.6.30.7-vs2.3.0.36.14-pre8 #1 SMP Thu Sep 24 11:52:00 UTC 2009 i686 Ea 0.30.216 273/glibc (Sa) <v13,net,v21,v22,v23,netv2> VCI: 0002:0304 273 13000fb1 (TbsPHIW) --- [000]# succeeded. [001]# succeeded. [011]# succeeded. [031]# succeeded. [101]# succeeded. [102]# succeeded. [201]# succeeded. [202]# succeeded. Btw.... that glibc notice up there is wrong. It is uclibc. -- Natanael Copa