From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j41Fib32005070 for ; Sun, 1 May 2005 15:44:37 GMT Received: from [12.40.38.131] (helo=pursuit) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1DSGce-0007a3-8d for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 01 May 2005 15:44:44 +0000 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Anyone use wolk-sources? From: Lance Albertson To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <4274B7D5.4010206@gentoo.org> References: <42741920.5010605@gentoo.org> <1114909454.2268.3.camel@pursuit> <4274B7D5.4010206@gentoo.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-sFD6jAdx9ZE29c0yInfX" Date: Sun, 01 May 2005 10:44:44 -0500 Message-Id: <1114962284.21624.1.camel@pursuit> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4 X-Archives-Salt: 9fd55b01-9180-4722-983f-e2d517fecf68 X-Archives-Hash: b1e4995a39003fd8ba4d69991d15954a --=-sFD6jAdx9ZE29c0yInfX Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 aroun= d > > 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. >=20 > 2.4.20 came out in 2002. You'd have thought they might base it off someth= ing > 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. > >=20 > > I'll report back when I find out whats going on! >=20 > 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 ve= rsion > which is months behind the last official release. >=20 > I'll at least be cleaning out the two older versions (4.9-r21 and 4.11-r1= 7) > 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. --=20 Lance Albertson Gentoo Infrastructure | Operations Manager --- GPG Public Key: Key fingerprint: 0423 92F3 544A 1282 5AB1 4D07 416F A15D 27F4 B742 ramereth/irc.freenode.net --=-sFD6jAdx9ZE29c0yInfX Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBCdPlsQW+hXSf0t0IRAjXbAJ9SGVeiM8Pr650ISX/ynKU+iagQJACfYmJA VoOZkJtMimisi3czjHYKqDg= =Ebkn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-sFD6jAdx9ZE29c0yInfX-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list