[Pkg-uml-devel] [user-mode-linux] old 2.4.x support and bugs

[Mattia Dongili]

On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 12:28:32PM +0200, Stefano Melchior wrote:
> Dear all,
> looking at the bugs I found:
> 
> # #176485: uml does not start up with slirp backend.
> Package: user-mode-linux (2.4.19.46um-1, 2.4.19.50um-1); ... Merged with #184223; 3 years and 257 days old.
> *	 #184223: user-mode-linux: slirp method does not work
> Package: user-mode-linux (2.4.19.46um-1, 2.4.19.50um-1); ... Merged with #176485; 3 years and 200 days
> old.

see here:
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-uml-devel/2006-July/000277.html
Bill asks to wait som more time.

> * 	#220681: user-mode-linux: serial port hangs/unimplemented ioctl
> Package: user-mode-linux (2.4.22-5um-1); ... 2 years and 317 days old.

> * 	#253688: hostfs should support mount -ouid/gid due to behavior change
> Package: user-mode-linux (2.4.26-1um-1); ... 2 years and 107 days old.

AFAICT this is still true, that's what humfs is trying to fix. I'd say
this could stay open.

> *	#304056: user-mode-linux: ifconfig hangs system
> Package: user-mode-linux (2.4.26-3um-1); ... 1 year and 168 days old. 

maybe ping the submitter?

> that refers to 2.4.x support in u-m-l kernel.
> Some of them refers to woody or to pre-sarge. I was wondering how and if
> they can be archived.
> Mattia, is it the case to close them?

I tried to deal with all of those bugs here:
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-uml-devel/2006-March/000186.html
And already closed close-able bugs, all the others probably need some
more attention and some chatting with submitter(s) if they are still
reachable. Anyway bugs don't bite and on the user-mode-linux side I'd
like to see amd64 binaries appear asap.

My plan is to enable amd64 builds with 2.6.18 and I'm already working on
it.

-- 
mattia
:wq!