there are a whole bunch of kernel fs modules that have been broken by all the screwing around on lklm with inode-diet changes / revertions etc. This concerns a number of packages. I am currently keeping away from 2.6.19 altogether because too many things are broken. cloop and fuse also fail to compile I would expect there are a number of issue that need to be fixed before gentoo-sources *19 works with all this. at least submount works with *17 and *18 : bug#148381 thanks to dsd for maintaining the ebuilds to now but if this pkg fails with latest kernel cant the ebuild handle that rather than dumping it altogether?
No, we can't and won't depend on particular kernel version in ebuilds; that doesn't work at all w/ slotted kernels. As stated, it has dead upstream (no new release for almost 3 years) and we have no intention to become upstream for this package.
Thanks for the clarification. I guess all the breakage is the price to pay for issuing a gentoo-sources on and unstable kernel number. Thinks have been pretty compatible for a while but 2.6.19* seems all over the place. Seems this particular patch (inode-diet) was badly thought out from the outset and the various attempts at limitting the damage have only added to the confusion and breakage of this sort of package. I hope lessons have been learnt. thx
There's a patch in Bug 148381, Comment #15 if you want to try, but as said, upstream is dead and noone is willing to keep patching this thing over and over again any more. Sorry.
*** Bug 158517 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
i don't agree with removal for minor API change i'm keeping care of that, and Daniel Drake did some patches too. i see no problem keeping it in the tree as far as we can keep it running on latest kernels. i don't understand if the "CLOSED WONTFIX" resolution means you planned to remove or not.
(In reply to comment #5) > i don't agree with removal Re-read Bug 148381 and this one as well; this is not staying in the tree because we are tired of working on behalf of non-existant upstream. > for minor API change i'm keeping care of that, and Daniel Drake did some > patches too. Daniel Drake is not interested in wasting time on this any more; again see Bug 148381.
ok i missed that bug. now i know the situation and i do agree. maybe i'll keep it on a overlay, but i hope a new mainteiner will come out.
# Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org> (12 Dec 2006) # Broken again with new kernel release, no maintainer, no upstream # Masked for removal on 2nd Jan 2007 sys-fs/submount @dsd - please remove this :)
thanks, done
I can support it. Please return this into portage tree:) And i want start work from bug #158517 :) ------------ Sorry for my very bad english :((
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