On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Julian Anastasov wrote: > > Hello, > > On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, jamal wrote: > > > Werner and I did announce (about 2 years ago if i am not mistaken) that > > we will not be backporting features fixes etc to 2.2 and were hoping to > > encourage people to upgrade this way. > > There are still 2.2 users :) > If you look at the old postings on the diffserv mailing list youll see about 70% of the questions were related to "my patch failed" etc (people patching in the wrong directory etc). Believe it or not a _lot_ of Linux users still hate patching (I have matured to accept it) or are not very skilled or bothered to learn; they just install connectiva 8 and are off to cook: i.e they just want things to work. Now unlike MS, we have the code! infact Werner has clearly documented what the changes from 2.2->2.4 are in his doc. I know the only time i have lately is for breathing (hopefully fresh air at work) and this backporting requires abuse of the brain cells more than thinking i.e its mechanical and therefore requires concentration/focus; so if someone could submit a backport patch <hint, hint> i think we would put it up the website. I believe we could even push it into the 2.2 next release since this stuff is pretty much stable right now. > > BTW, what is the motivatein behind: > > http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/~julian/01_ingress-breaks-fw-1.diff > > At least, FW_REDIRECT, not sure for any others > I am trying to think of some way to probably do this from ingress instead since some people actually want that overwrite. cheers, jamal _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/
