ACL's this time around

Why are ACL's not inputted into the distro yet?  It seems that they are 
stable by now so it would be nice if they were in.

[Ali-Reza Anghaie]

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 [e-mail] wrote:
> Why are ACL's not inputted into the distro yet?  It seems that they are
> stable by now so it would be nice if they were in.

They are in RHEL and since those SRPMs are available, you can rebuild
under Fedora Core...

I've heard of at least one person who has already done that.

With the sudden influx of flexibility in what is to be included, it
wouldn't surprise me if it took some time to port the patches properly to
match w/ Fedora patches RHEL doesn't have (visa-versa)..

Cheers, -Ali

[Milan Kerslager]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 11:56:49AM -0600, [e-mail] wrote:
> Why are ACL's not inputted into the distro yet?  It seems that they are 
> stable by now so it would be nice if they were in.

ACL patch in in RHEL. There was a bug in ACL code. The bug is resolved
now so we can expect ACL in the next Fedora release (probably with 2.6.x
kernel).

The second reason is decision to keep Fedora kernel close to vanilla as
much as possible because a huge set of patches needs more developers
resources (and RHEL is able to pay to them but Fedora is not).