Re: hmm, dependencies

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

Vladimir Saveliev wrote:

>Hello
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>On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 21:09, Redeeman wrote:
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>>On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 20:30 +0300, Vladimir Saveliev wrote:
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>>>Hello
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>>>On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 18:22, Redeeman wrote:
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>>>>On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 16:55 +0300, Vladimir Saveliev wrote:
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>>>>>Hello
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>>>>>On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 22:56, Redeeman wrote:
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>>>>>>hello.. reiser4 is now in mm, but i realize that nearly all of the stuff
>>>>>>that was mm specific when the move to mm was made, are probably merged
>>>>>>into upstream by now, i wonder, can anyone tell me exactly what from mm
>>>>>>it depends on?
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>>>>>>thanks
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>>>>>reiser4 got included into mm not because it needed something of it, but
>>>>>rather because it is supposed that being in mm for certain amount of
>>>>>time reiser4 will get a lot of testing and will prove that it is worth
>>>>>to get included into stock kernel. 
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>>>>im aware, however, the reiser4 patches in mm are against mm, which means
>>>>it depends on something from it, and i'd like to find out what :D so
>>>>that i can take it out and apply to vanilla along with reiser4
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>>>did you see ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiser4-for-2.6/2.6.9?
>>>It contains all things which reiser4 depends on.
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>>nice
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>>>If you would like to add reiser4 to vanilla kernel yourself you would
>>>have to add reiser4 patches of mm kernel to vanilla one:
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>>>people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.X/2.6.X-mmY/broken-out/reiser4-*
>>>and add the patch i am attaching to this email.
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>>yeah i tried that, however they dont patch against latest vanilla, it
>>would seem the vfs has changed abit.. i just wondered if anyone knew
>>exactly which of the mm patches was needed to make up for this, but, now
>>you gave me that url :) never mind..
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>Ah, yes, you are right, there is a patch which rejects.
>But, I guess that if we keep ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiser4-for-2.6/
>uptodate - that would be ok and we would not have to release separate
>patches for vanilla kernel
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How is this a one step install process for users?  Anything that 
diverges from a one step install process is bad with the amount badness 
proportional to the number of steps.  Minimize the badness.

Give the task to vitaly though.

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