[Debian] quick question on kernel-patch-openvz for etch

[Ola Lundqvist]

Hi

Precisely. I choosed to keep the old version if the user for some  
reason needed to run on that old kernel version. Just for compatibility.

Best regards,

// Ola

Quoting Thorsten Schifferdecker <tsd at debian.systs.org>:

> Hello Kir,
>
> that's easy to explain, in debian kernel-patch-openvz package exist a
> patch for an vanilla linux kernel 2.6.16, too.
>
> [...]
> 2.6.18 -> /usr/src/kernel-patches/diffs/openvz/diff-ovz-028.18-deb.gz
> 2.6.16 -> /usr/src/kernel-patches/diffs/openvz/patch-026test015-combined.gz
>
> so when applied the patch to kernel tree, make-kpkg choose the right
> patch, depends on which kernel tree is used.
>
> Regards,
>  Thorsten
>
> Kir Kolyshkin wrote:
>> Hi Ola,
>>
>> Hope you had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
>>
>> One of our users claims that in Debian Etch we have   
>> kernel-patch-openvz which is 026test015 (which sounds weird to me   
>> since 026 series is for 2.6.16 kernel, not for 2.6.18) and he   
>> proves his point with the following URL:
>>
>> http://packages.debian.org/etch/all/kernel-patch-openvz/filelist
>>
>> Indeed, this file list have something called patch-026test015-combined.gz
>>
>> Could you please clarify?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Kir.
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