[Aurora-sparc-devel] Kernel for 2.98 doesn't build from source rpm

[Dean Anderson]

On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:

> 
> On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 22:44 -0400, Dean Anderson wrote:
> 
> > This is a very serious problem.  I've said this several times, now. No
> > one seems to be listening.  What's up with that? Is it that you don't
> > care about security? Or you don't know how to fix the problem?
> 
> Let me repeat what I've been saying for a while now:
> 
> I'm not working on 2.98. I haven't been for more than a year now. I'm
> working on 3.0, which is represented by corona until 3.0 is a finalized
> release.
> 
> The 3.0 kernel and environment doesn't have any of the problems that
> you're seeing with 2.98. Several of the issues are things that I've
> fixed explicitly as a result of what you've pointed out.
> 
> I do care about security, but I have no obligation (nor interest) in
> going back and making minor fixes in a beta tree, especially when I've
> already fixed them in the "development" tree.

Actually, corona suffers the same problem:

rpmbuild -bb kernel-2.6.spec 
error: File /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/linux-2.6-proc-self-maps-fix.patch: 
No such file or directory
[root at mallard SPECS]# uname -a
Linux mallard 2.6.21-1.3149.al3.14 #1 Wed Aug 29 13:54:06 EDT 2007 
sparc64 sparc64 sparc64 GNU/Linux


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