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On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 22:57 -0500, Mike Doty wrote: |
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> Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> | On Thursday 29 September 2005 02:10 pm, Chris Bainbridge wrote: |
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> |>I was wondering if there's any chance of having the reiser4 patch for |
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> |>grub (or even the whole grub-reiser4 distfile) added to the ebuild. |
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> |>There are various bugs where people have posted patches for 0.96x |
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> |>ebuilds which were never added and the bugs have been WONTFIXed or |
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> |>left dangling. I've been using grub+reiser4 for about 9 months now |
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> |>with no problems. The last reason I heard it wouldn't be added was |
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> |>that no kernels in portage support it; I believe that's not true |
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> |>anymore, at least mm-sources has reiser4. |
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> | i'll ask a few devs how they feel about it before i commit it |
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> | -mike |
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> I'd prefer if the patch was left out for amd64 users, or included via a |
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> use flag. reiser4 isn't yet stable or proven on amd64. |
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Honestly no matter what your opinion of resier4 is, this patch needs to |
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really be added. I see that amd64 has mm-sources in portage, which is a |
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kernel from kernel.org, and it has ~amd64 KEYWORDS. The argument that |
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we have always had was that reiser4 was not included in a kernel.org |
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kernel. This is no longer true. Now, I can understand not *supporting* |
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it until it hits vanilla, but we shouldn't deny adding patches that |
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resolve issues with the FS or packages that interact with the FS just |
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because we dislike it or don't deem the FS stable. I'd say to add the |
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patch to grub, and if a user hoses up their system, well... they're |
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knowingly running a very experimental kernel and an arguable file |
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system.... they can pick up the pieces themselves. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Strategic Lead |
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x86 Architecture Team |
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Games - Developer |
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Gentoo Linux |