Re: [gentoo-dev] Anyone use wolk-sources?

[Lance Albertson]

On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 12:04 +0100, Daniel Drake wrote:
> Lance Albertson wrote:
> > I was actually just thinking about WOLK today and how I never got around
> > to putting the newest builds in the tree. For now keep them in there.
> > I'll email upstream to see if whats the status on development for WOLK
> > these days. The mailing lists have been quiet for the most part, so
> > we'll see. It may be based on 2.4.20 but its no where near to what
> > 2.4.20 is ;). Its closer to a 2.6 kernel by now with its latest
> > versions.
>
> 2.4.20 came out in 2002. You'd have thought they might base it off something
> newer by now...

I'm not sure why he did it that way. I know he essentially patched in
the later versions (crazy I know).

> > Infra currently decommissioned to the two boxes we were running WOLK on,
> > so we don't currently have a need for it from that side of things.
> >
> > I'll report back when I find out whats going on!
>
> Ok. The main issue is that keeping old kernels around is a maintenance
> nightmare with the security patches, etc. Also, this kernel is so heavily
> patched that it would be impossible for us to support it. On top of that,
> there doesn't seem to be any demand for it - we have only ever had a few bug
> reports for it, and we've never recieved a bump request for the latest version
> which is months behind the last official release.
>
> I'll at least be cleaning out the two older versions (4.9-r21 and 4.11-r17)
> over the next few days.

Yeah, I agree sadly. Since I haven't seen much activity on their devel
lists I'd have to say things have pretty much stopped. Give me a few
days to see if we get a response from the upstream author as to the
status of the project before we totally axe it.

-- 
Lance Albertson <ramereth@g.o>
Gentoo Infrastructure | Operations Manager

---
GPG Public Key:  <http://www.ramereth.net/lance.asc>
Key fingerprint: 0423 92F3 544A 1282 5AB1  4D07 416F A15D 27F4 B742

ramereth/irc.freenode.net