Re: Core Update 171

[Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>]

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Hello,

Thank you for putting this together so swiftly.

> On 17 Sep 2022, at 21:31, Peter Müller <peter.mueller(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello development folks,
> 
> on the given occasion, I'd like to share my thoughts regarding Core Update 171.
> 
> Currently, it contains a new toolchain, updated Perl (thanks again, Adolf!), as
> well as updated linux-firmware, some bug fixes and package updates. The Core
> Update itself currently has 39 MBytes in size.

Yay. I wouldn’t mind releasing a slightly smaller update every once in a while.

> Unless someone objects, I would like to squeeze a kernel into Core Update 171,
> since the one we released in 170 contains a bug rendering apparently popular
> ASIX USB3-to-LAN adapters unusable, which affects several users (none of them
> tested, of course :-/ ).

Great.

> Aside from that, there are a few bugs I'd like to see fixed before releasing
> Core Update 171, such as repairing the creation of full ISO backups (no Bugzilla
> ID assigned yet, AFAIK), as well as me finally fixing #12489.

Regarding the backup ISO I saw a fix from Matthias, but I couldn’t find a patch, yet.

> To release a testing version of C171 more timely, I propose to close the update
> in roughly a week, on September 25.

I believe that I don't have anything left for this update.

It would have been nice to see suricata 6 in it, though.

-Michael

> 
> As always, comments/critics/thoughts are appreciated.
> 
> Thanks, and best regards,
> Peter Müller