On 08/01/2013 09:43 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Chris R <chrisrfq@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Its back up... >> >> Thanks very much! >> >>> ...that page has ancient releases, why are you still using them? >> >> I'm stuck at kernel version 2.6.37. > > So backports is designed so that you use a backports-3.11 say on > 2.6.37. That is you don't have to use a backport-3.10 only on 3.10 in > fact that'd be pointless. We backport functionality from a kernel as a > base and that base is used as the version name for the release. > > A few folks have reported misunderstanding this as well so I'm curious > apart from the documentation we have on the wiki [0] what else can we > do to help with this? > > [0] https://backports.wiki.kernel.org > > Luis Users do not read any documentation. ;-) I added it to multiple places in the wiki and still there are people in the IRC with such problems. We should make it fail if kernel version > backports version and we should also take the minor version into account. If the major version is the same we should print a big warning. Hauke -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe backports" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
