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Subject: Re: Oops: ptrace fix buggy
From: Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org>
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On Mon, 2003-04-14 at 15:46, Jörn Engel wrote:

> Privately, I have introduced a variable FIXLEVEL for this. The
> resulting kernel version is 2.4.20.2 instead of 2.4.20-uv2, which imo
> is more suiting for a fixed stable kernel.
> 

This is not a good idea ... especially if its a box that you
compile a lot of software on.  Reason is that everything expects
it to be MAJ.MIN.MIC  ... If you add now another version, then
things start to break.  A good example is mozilla ...


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Martin Schlemmer