* Erwin Zierler - stubainet.at wrote on Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 10:17 +0100:
When I have install my RPM kernel on my SuSE 7.2, the quota support and IPV6, and Tunneling was inside the kernel ... But when I do this
I cannot verify this but if I remember right I always had to build my own kernel to enable quota support
Are you sure? SuSE scripts honor quotas, so I would wonder why...
update, SuSE say's nothing about consequence ..., I loose all my configuration,
What kind of configuration?
and also security configuration ... This is a security hole on how SuSE has communicate about this kernel update... This is a security hole on system where was good configured, but today not more...
Yes, in short I wish SuSE would be more careful in such issues. It may happen that you get an update package with different build options, sometime that is the reason for the update, but sometimes you get even new depencies or so. After all, it looks that SuSE has no well defined compile farm / build hosts, and by this every build can change the system behavoir a little. But of course it's really impossible to have a RPM for each lib combination :)
a complete server... think on the end user how receive a email with a security advisory every time... Linux gonna loose his customers
Do you mean SuSE or really Linux?
if he don't care about all the dependencies of a system, and also don^'t explain correctly all the consequence on all the end users...
Or Linus? I'm sure he never build no SuSE RPM at all :) [... cut a large part I totally agree with ...] oki, Steffen -- Dieses Schreiben wurde maschinell erstellt, es trägt daher weder Unterschrift noch Siegel.