On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 04:20:22PM -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote:
>If you look at the existing patches generally do not add new
features but
>contain bug fixes in order to fix the problem sooner and usually are
>later merged into the upstream kernel.
Is there some way to tell for each patch where it came from and what it's
status is upstream? Like a
kernel.org bugzilla entry (or whatever they
use). How does the kernel maintainer know when it's time to pull a patch
out of the RPM?
It's usually time to pull it when it no longer applies to the latest upstream :-)
The actual patchfiles contain info at the top of the file (or at least a
pointer to the bugzilla they're fixing) in most cases, though some of the
'legacy' patches don't have any description yet.
Dave