1.22.1: been hit by the zcat bug

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Tue Oct 21 19:07:57 UTC 2014


On 21 Oct 2014 20:26, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Oct 2014, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On 21 Oct 2014 20:02, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote:
> > >
> > > Nothing needs to be fixed.  What I'm merryly suggesting is adding
> > > the appropriate _existing_ patch(es) to
> > > http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.22.1/.  There may be a
> > > general intrest in that.
> >
> > yes, but the branches aren't just "let's cherry pick everything".
> 
> I didn't suggest that.  I recall saying "appropriate".
> 
> > they tend to be for specific bugs that users have noticed.  hence
> > i'm asking, what bugs are you seeing in the current release that you
> > want fixed *in the branch* ?  so far, you've shown one case, and
> > only (small) commit is needed for that.  if you have no other use
> > cases that are impacted, we'll just ignore the rest and move on.
> 
> Whatever.  You decide.  I can do my own patching.

ffs, i don't know why all this pointless dancing.  i guess the answer is you 
only have the one use case, so only that one patch needs to be cherry picked.  
you aren't hitting any other issues, so there's no need to waste time 
backporting other commits.
-mike
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