flashboot - Jul 2006 - Status of misc/patches

Curious about the status of the patches in the misc/patches
file. These seem incompatible with Current ldconfig.c:
several hunks fail; make build fails with partial patch installed.
The patches file seems identical in snapshot and alpha release.
Attempted to merge manually, but some incompatibilities, e.g.
semantics of ''-S''.

* Are these patches important/necessary?
* If so, would one be advised to backtrack to stable?

Side question:
* Any way to resume a failed build that does not involve starting
 from scratch (~6 hours to get to the bug--is getting old :-)

// F

On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 08:15:20PM -0500, farlies wrote:
: Curious about the status of the patches in the misc/patches
: file. These seem incompatible with Current ldconfig.c:
: several hunks fail; make build fails with partial patch installed.
: The patches file seems identical in snapshot and alpha release.
: Attempted to merge manually, but some incompatibilities, e.g.
: semantics of ''-S''.
: 
: * Are these patches important/necessary?
: * If so, would one be advised to backtrack to stable?

no, it just adds some features to ldconfig that are useful if
you are running things in chroot spaces.