Re: [Tails-dev] [review'n'merge: 1.2.1] feature/linux-3.16.0…

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Author: intrigeri
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To: The Tails public development discussion list
Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] [review'n'merge: 1.2.1] feature/linux-3.16.0-4
Hi,

anonym wrote (12 Nov 2014 14:12:35 GMT) :
> Please review'n'merge this kernel bump into stable and devel, which will
> close ticket #8249.


I've taken care of it, as part of the LHF session => passes some basic
manual tests, and a couple features of the automatic test suite
(erase_memory, evince). Merged!

> This has to be done relatively soon since the
> current kernel we install will be removed in about four days
> (~2014-11-16).


Well, it was removed already and the builds were broken again.

> A notable change in this kernel upgrade is that the -486 packages are
> renamed -586 (and indeed do no run on true 486 any more). To keep the
> consistency on our side we may want to do the following:


>     sed 's/486/586/g' config/binary_local-hooks/20-syslinux_detect_cpu


> but it isn't necessary [1] so I have refrained from doing it since
> renaming the syslinux menu file feels a bit risky for a point-release
> (perhaps it'll mess up IUK upgrades, the Tails installer or something?).


Agreed. May you please please file a ticket about it, so that we don't
forget to clean things up in the next major release or so?

Cheers,
--
intrigeri