From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick McHardy Subject: Re: Update: Patch-o-matic cleanup Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 17:37:46 +0200 Message-ID: <4433E44A.3000503@trash.net> References: <443165AA.4030509@trash.net> <4433CA75.9040607@trash.net> <4433E035.2010504@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Netfilter Development Mailinglist Return-path: To: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger In-Reply-To: <4433E035.2010504@gmx.net> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: netfilter-devel-bounces@lists.netfilter.org Errors-To: netfilter-devel-bounces@lists.netfilter.org List-Id: netfilter-devel.vger.kernel.org Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > Hi Patrick, > > Patrick McHardy schrieb: > >>After receiving multiple "please keep this patch" mails, it seems I >>started the wrong way. >> >>Removing old patches is part of a greater plan to reduce the content of >>pom to only those things the netfilter team has an interest in >>maintaining, and most of these things will be merged in not too long >>time. _All_ other patches will be removed and the "runme" tool will >>be enhanced by an apt-get like mechanism to download patches from >>external sources[...] > > > But why keep a few patches in pom and throw out the rest? Wouldn't it > make sense to reduce pom to a simple script and throw out all patches? > The few patches maintained by the netfilter team could be moved to a > separate pom-hotfix package and be automatically downloaded by the > pom script. We could do that, but currently we want to keep a few patches while minimizing our effort, the easiest way to do that is to just keep them where they are. > OTOH, having a pom-ng that can be applied without a network connection > was very helpful for me in the past. So if you are really going to > discontinue pom-ng as is, I offer to take over maintenance. Fetching > the different packages from locations in a list and assembling them > into one pom-full package automatically can't be that difficult. I'm not sure if we want to discontinue official pom-releases entirely, but you are of course free to maintain and release version which include external patches.