On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 08:13:19AM -0500, Tom spot Callaway wrote: > The SPARC bootloader (silo) can't handle label names longer than 15 > characters. So, for example, when booty tries to automagically label a > new kernel on Aurora, we get a label like: > > 2.6.22-1.3200.fc > > The more we overload that n-v-r, the less useful that label is. silo can't be fixed ? > Proposal: > > - Lose the leading 1. It really doesn't serve much purpose. It would be > better to roll to 10000 if you have that many builds before the kernel > increments. it's the cvs ident, so it'll need some shell scripting to sed it away or something. > (with room for 2.6.22-10000.fc7 if we need it) Eventually, it'll get that high. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk _______________________________________________ Fedora-kernel-list mailing list Fedora-kernel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kernel-list
