On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 05:48:40PM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > 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? maybe. if the contents are the same, then it should work. Makes me wonder why that isn't what CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_PROC_COMPAT would do. But then, I'm trying not to think too hard today. Vacationing is hard. > > 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. :) Forever the optimist eh? :) Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk _______________________________________________ Fedora-kernel-list mailing list Fedora-kernel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kernel-list
