Użytkownik Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl napisał:
> On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 03:48:32PM +0200, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
> > No, fdisk, cfdisk, sfdisk do not use HDIO_GETGEO_BIG.
> > And indeed, the ioctl is completely meaningless.
>
> In many current distributions (e.g. from Red Hat, Mandrake and Caldera)
> they do.
>
> Yes, distributions are known to introduce buggy patches.
>
> Moreover, distributions are known to copy each others bugs.
> Sometimes I tell one distribution that a patch is buggy,
> and they revert their patch, but some months later they
> have it again, copied from some other distribution.
> Even bad "segmentation fault" bugs are copied.
>
> But for 2.5 this is not important. Distributions have time
> to fix stuff before 2.6.
And developement kernels are known to require updated:
util-linux,
modutils
mounts
net-utils
and so on :-).
As long as long an installed system doesn't break utterly
there is no reaons IMHO why cleanups shouldn't be done.
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