January 2005

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			January 2005

Topics:
- - Patchlevel changing
- - mkinitrd shortcomings
- - RSS Feeds
- - Statistics


Patchlevel changing
(Archive:
http://www.rocklinux.net/lurker/message/20050128.204537.5ae7bb98.html)

There was some confusion going on about when and how to change the
extraversion on packages. Clifford is going to write a script that
automagically does this whenever he applies a new patch-set. If a
package is indirectly affected this still has to be done manually (for
example: package X statically links libY.a into its binary and libY is
updated to a new version).


mkinitrd shortcomings
(Archive:
http://www.rocklinux.net/lurker/message/20050117.115959.4f8643fc.html)

During an inquiry about how to add features like Root on RAID to
mkinitrd, Chris Hamilton and Benjamin Schieder had a small discussion
about shortcomings of the mkinitrd script. They concluded that the
current mkinitrd has a long way to go.


RSS Feeds

Two RSS feeds were added to the http://www.rocklinux.org/ website this
month:
- - SubMaster
~  this feed features addition, deletion, application, votes and comments
on submitted patches
- - ROCKDoc
~  this feed features changes to the ROCKDoc Wiki, aimed at documenting
ROCK Linux


Statistics

New       Patches: 197
Applied   Patches: 154
Discarded Patches:  39
Difference in open Patches: +4

Changes in ROCK 2.1: 162
Changes in ROCK 2.0:   6
Changes in ROCKDoc :  44

ROCKDoc statistics (according to wc(1)):
Characters:     86640
Words:          12386
Lines:           1800
Longest line:     537
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