[Pkg-uml-pkgs] Bug#484318: [PATCH] mention that humfs is not supported by the debian user-mode-linux 2.6.30-1um-1+b1 package.

[Timo Juhani Lindfors]

Hi,

I spent several hours trying to figure out why humfs did not work with
user-mode-linux. I then noticed that the kernel source code does not
even mention "humfs" and it is maintained only as an external patch
set.

Here's a proposed patch that will make the man page of the humsify
tool warn that humfs is not actually supported even though the
conversion tool is provided by debian. Does this sound like a good idea?

---
 debian/humfsify.sgml |    4 ++++
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/debian/humfsify.sgml b/debian/humfsify.sgml
index cb7f208..b5453bc 100644
--- a/debian/humfsify.sgml
+++ b/debian/humfsify.sgml
@@ -70,6 +70,10 @@ manpage.1: manpage.sgml
       because the original program does not have a manual page.
       Instead, it has documentation in HTML format; see below.</para>

+    <para>Note that humfs is not supported by the user-mode-linux
+    package in Debian, at least as of version 2.6.30-1um-1+b1. To use
+    it you need to build your own kernel with humfs patches.</para>
+
     <para><command>&dhpackage;</command> is a Perl script necessary to
        convert a directory to a format expected by the UML humfs file system.
     </para>
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