Re: 2.1.105ac4

B. James Phillippe (bryan@terran.org)
Wed, 10 Jun 1998 10:45:44 -0700 (PDT)


On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Alan Cox wrote:

>
> ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/alan/2.1/..
>
> This one does the following
...
> o Official version of ppp fix instead of mine
...

I have a query about PPP. I've had an extraodinary amount of difficulty
keeping PPP up to-date and installed properly due to the fact that the PPP
package likes to go into kernel source and fiddle with code there. This
grand scheme of managing PPP-related files and keeping them in sync appears
to boil down to a human's ability to remember to update the FILEVER comment
in the header of the source file if they make changes! This makes
trouble-shooting PPP problems a nightmare because every person on the
Internet can potentially have a different PPP system, built on a smattering
of mismatched kernel includes and kernel-version dependant pppd.

I have ppp-2.3.5 built and installed against 2.1.105 (and working with
2.1.88 as well), but I'm wondering if it isn't time to put a stake in the
ground and seperate the package from the kernel once and for all.

Does anyone have ideas about this, or perhaps other comments for or
against?

-bp

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B. James Phillippe <bryan@terran.org>
Linux Software Engineer, WGT Inc.
http://earth.terran.org/~bryan

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