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On 1 July 2013 20:09, Matthew Summers <quantumsummers@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Tom Wijsman <TomWij@g.o> wrote: |
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>> On Mon, 1 Jul 2013 19:38:48 +0100 |
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>> Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o> wrote: |
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>>> I certainly don't feel safe anymore running non-upstream code in |
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>>> production boxes. |
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>> You don't run it unless you explicitly tick on that you want |
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>> experimental functionality _as well as_ the optional features in |
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>> question; as I said earlier on chat, I don't understand your point here. |
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>> If you don't enable them, genpatches is just like it is before; I'm |
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>> not sure why the recommendations should change here, especially with |
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>> vanilla-sources taking a further step away from Gentoo Security and QA. |
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> Tom, |
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> I think the point was well-made by grehkh. If the patchset patches the |
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> kernel's core, it doesn't matter what CONFIG_* option is set the core |
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> kernel code _has_now_been_changed_. This is the crux of the argument, |
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> I believe. AUFS simply being one example of this. I'm sure there are |
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> others. |
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> -- |
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> Matthew W. Summers |
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> Gentoo Foundation Inc. |
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> GPG: 111B C438 35FA EDB5 B5D3 736F 45EE 5DC0 0878 9D46 |
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And besides that, I am sure that 98% of our users out there do not |
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know they run a (heavily?) modified upstream kernel when they emerge |
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the official/supported gentoo-sources. The transition between the |
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minimal genpatches to the "new-shiny-feature-full" was made behind the |
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scenes. |
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This should have been communicated earlier in time. |
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If you ask me, I would prefer if you apply all the 3rd-party patches |
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conditionally (use flag?, maybe a new gentoo-sources-ng ebuild?) |
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It's really scary to have the BFQ in a stable gentoo-sources ebuild. |
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Regards, |
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Markos Chandras - Gentoo Linux Developer |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~hwoarang |