[arch-general] uname26 - Where is it?

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Karol Babioch <karol at babioch.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've looked around for the last couple of weeks for a package providing
> uname26 [1]. However I couldn't find such and in the mean time compiled
> it for myself.
>
> I've also searched for the appearance of uname26 in the forums and the
> mailing lists and couldn't find that much about it.
>
> So I'm wondering whether nobody of you was (and/or is) affected by the
> kernel version scheme change, so that there is no need for you to have
> this package?
>
> As it is quite simple to get and compile this code, it wouldn't be that
> much of a hassle to package it. However I'm not that much into
> packaging, so I wouldn't like to do it, unless I have to.
>
> I'm not asking anyone of you to do the packaging, and considering myself
> to get into it (the whole Arch Build System), but I'm wondering why
> nobody of you seems to have a need for it ;)?
>
> Best regards,
> Karol Babioch
>
>

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25747 <- people complained
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=be27425dcc516fd08245b047ea57f83b8f6f0903
<- uname26 commit