Dave Jones wrote: > On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 03:13:22PM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > > Josh Boyer wrote: > > >> Users also have firewall configuration scripts that rely on these > > >> entries. > > > > > > Damn. That does suck. > > > > > > So how long does upstream intend to keep CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_PROC_COMPAT > > > around? > > > > Until FC-6 dies, hopefully... :) > > > > A new comment in bz 234174 is interesting: > > > > | Or, ideally, the kernel rpm should look into obvious places (e.g. > > | /etc/sysconfig/iptables-config, /etc/sysctl.conf) and do some perl -pie magic. > > This would break booting back into the earlier kernel (which used to work > until we munged these files). > Maybe we could create symlinks in the new kernel directory so the old module names would work? > I think enabling the compat stuff for FC6's lifetime should be safe. > Hopefully upstream won't rip them out too soon. We'll just leave FC 6 on 2.6.20 until 2.6.21 is stable, i.e. forever. :) _______________________________________________ Fedora-kernel-list mailing list Fedora-kernel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kernel-list
