On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 08:13:19AM -0500, Tom spot Callaway wrote:
The SPARC bootloader (silo) can't handle label names longer than
15
characters. So, for example, when booty tries to automagically label a
new kernel on Aurora, we get a label like:
2.6.22-1.3200.fc
The more we overload that n-v-r, the less useful that label is.
silo can't be fixed ?
Proposal:
- Lose the leading 1. It really doesn't serve much purpose. It would be
better to roll to 10000 if you have that many builds before the kernel
increments.
it's the cvs ident, so it'll need some shell scripting to sed it
away or something.
(with room for 2.6.22-10000.fc7 if we need it)
Eventually, it'll get that high.
Dave
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