[Debian] Re: lenny updates

[dann frazier]

On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 09:44:04PM +0100, Ola Lundqvist wrote:
> Hi Dann
> 
> You asked about the latest status and here it is.
> Please tell which ones you want me to fix for the next lenny release of the kernel. I'll prepare
> a patch and regression test that version for you.

Wow Ola, thanks - great detail. I'll look this over and get back to
you.

> #510787:
> Refers to an other bug report that was not openvz specific. Should it be
> forwarded to an non-openvz version of the kernel or kept here?
> In any case I have added latest information to the report and told where
> the problem has been forwarded.
> 
> #511165:
> Patch exist for 2.6.24 and 2.6.26. Fix is available in
> http://git.openvz.org/?p=linux-2.6.26-openvz;a=commit;h=b5e1f74cee5bc2c45bdca53a7218fb8de89215dd
> Not sure if this is an ABI breaker.
> 
> #500876:
> Fix available in:
> http://git.openvz.org/?p=linux-2.6.26-openvz;a=commit;h=777e8164ebf8a03e43511983cdec472f8691a8af
> Problem is about to be verified. Regression tested without problems seen.
> 
> #503097:
> Reported as http://bugzilla.openvz.org/show_bug.cgi?id=930
> Seems to be a duplicate of #500876 above.
> 
> #505174:
> This is a request to go up to the latest version that includes fixes for
> all the ones in this mail that describe that there is a fix available.
> Unfortunatly there are ABI breakers...
> 
> #508773:
> Patch available in http://bugzilla.openvz.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1054
> Fix in http://git.openvz.org/?p=linux-2.6.24-openvz;a=commit;h=20bd90762d4df4a3c7c247b660c696bdd0a27709
> Do not look like an ABI breaker to me.
> 
> #500145:
> Forwarded to http://bugzilla.openvz.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1143
> Marked as dupliate of http://bugzilla.openvz.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1067
> Not solved yet.
> 
> #501985:
> From: maximilian attems
> the upstream nfs fixes are abi breakers and thus can't be integrated
> at this point they will be for the first point release were abi
> breaking will be allowed again.
> 
> #494445:
> There are a number of problems in this area. Fixes are available.
> However some of them are ABI breakers.
> 
> #500645:
> Fix available in http://bugzilla.openvz.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1034
> http://git.openvz.org/?p=linux-2.6.26-openvz;a=commit;h=6d18ba377cfa3e86ee830fe6a5fce52b8fd51039
> I can not see that this is an ABI breaker, so it should be possibly to
> apply this one without problem.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> // Ola
> 
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 04:47:35PM -0700, dann frazier wrote:
> > hey,
> >  The first lenny update	is scheduled for early	April, so I wanted to
> > start coordinating the kernel update.
> > 
> > Security
> > --------
> > The lenny-security branch is currently caught up on security issues,
> > so I'd like to release a DSA later this week. I'd appreciate it if the
> > individual arch maintainers could test builds from this branch ahead
> > of time. The CVE-2009-0029 touch a lot of arch-specific code and
> > though they applied pretty easily to the lenny kernel, it'd still be
> > good to get some testing there. I noticed that the snapshot archive
> > now has a lenny-security dist for some archs (thanks waldi)
> > 
> > Stable
> > ------
> > There are several fixes queued up for a stable upload. I have a
> > few more small fixes from jmm to review/commit as well, and it looks
> > like tbm has an RTC regression fix pending. I've seen mentions of
> > OpenVZ fixes from Ola/maks - what is the status of those? Are there
> > any other changes people are working on?
> > 
> > ABI changes
> > -----------
> > The security fixes don't currently break the ABI. It sounds like the
> > openvz fixes are ABI-breaking?. If it is going to be ready for this
> > update and does break the ABI, I'd also like to get the hppa
> > large-module fix in. And, of course, we'll need to notify the d-i team
> > of this change.
> > 
> 

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dann frazier