From: Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de>
Subject: Re: Please remove getkversion
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 16:41:34 +0100
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To: "Steinar H. Gunderson" <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>
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On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 02:45:05PM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> getkversion fails when building against newer kernel headers, since
> UTS_RELEASE is no longer exported to userspace (nor is there any adequate
> replacement that I know of). This has already hit Ubuntu (making nfs-utils
> not build anymore), so they've simply stopped building it -- we're doing so
> in Debian as well, as we'll probably hit the same problems, and getkversion
> isn't really in use anyhow.

Given that it was a hack to start with, I'm suprised it has
been building for that long :)

Olaf
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