[aur-general] [Removal Request] r8169

Oon-Ee Ng ngoonee.talk at gmail.com
Thu Dec 8 22:18:04 EST 2011


On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 9:05 AM, Jason St. John <jstjohn at purdue.edu> wrote:
> I am requesting that AUR package r8169 (
> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=44317 ) be removed.
>
> The r8169 package seems to have been created because of a bug in the
> 2.6.36 kernel which has already been fixed, apparently. Note that the
> r8169 kernel module is already in the kernel (and has been for a
> while).
>
> The submitter of the package (darkmug) stated the following in the comments:
> "Kernel version has a bug on current arch version. The problem is
> described on https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=761029
> This package has a patch that solves it. As soon as arch's version
> solves it, I pretend to remove from aur."
>
> Thanks

Well now that its ACTUALLY been removed there's no reason to pretend
to remove it =)


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