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From: Tim Tassonis <timtas@cubic.ch>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Swap doesn't work
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> Sorry, tons of people that have absolute no clue about the package
> internals set up their systems themselves and make mistakes.  nothing
> spectacular, but they just don't have those people who know the
> packages in detail and can notice and fix the bugs.  Just get binary
> rpm/deb whatever of the toolchain and reproduce.

As I said, I can't reproduce it even on my lfs system, maybe because my
disks are scsi. So reproducing on my Red Hat wouldn't really help, would
it?

> > lfs has a manual with clearly specified package versions, patches and
> > order of "toolchaining". It might well be a bug in that chain, but
> > other distros have bugs, too. Signing software doesn't make it
> > superior, after all.
> 
> but having people who understand the software maintain the
> packages sometimes helps :)

As far as I know, lfs does not maintain the packages. binutils and gcc are
maintained by FSF to my knowledge.

Bye
Tim
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