Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: "P.V.Anthony" <pvantony@×××××××××××.sg>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: gentoo-sources 2.6.15-r6
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 17:25:19
Message-Id: 43E8D740.5040109@singnet.com.sg
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] Re: gentoo-sources 2.6.15-r6 by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
1 Duncan wrote:
2 > P.V.Anthony posted <43E88548.2030302@×××××××××××.sg>, excerpted below, on
3 > Tue, 07 Feb 2006 19:32:24 +0800:
4 >
5 >> Hi,
6 >>
7 >> I am trying to emerge gentoo-sources 2.6.15-r6.
8 >>
9 >> Yes I know that it is not released on the gentoo website. It is there on
10 >> the http://dev.gentoo.org/~dsd/genpatches/releases-2.6.15.htm site.
11 >>
12 >> Is there a way to emerge this unreleased version? I would like to try it
13 >> out as the version 2.6.15 is not doing too good now.
14 >>
15 >> Please do advice if there is some keyword setting I have to do.
16 >
17 > It's not yet even in the tree, so it's rather more than a keyword setting
18 > you'd have to change. The latest listed in the tree (synced this morning)
19 > is -r3, according to equery and earch (a script from the gentoo-dev list)
20 >
21 > You can also use packages.gentoo.org to look up various packages. For
22 > gentoo-sources:
23 >
24 > http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=gentoo-sources
25 >
26 > It also says 2.6.15-r3 is the latest, with the latest changelog entry on
27 > Feb 6 (that version already stable on amd64).
28 >
29 > It would appear to me the versions in the list in dsd's devspace are
30 > patch-versions or the like, not corresponding directly to ebuild -r
31 > versions. A quick comparison of the changelog against the versions listed
32 > on that page confirms it -- the stuff listed on the page as release
33 > 2.6.15-6 appears in the gentoo-sources changelog for 2.6.15-r3.
34 >
35 > Finally, checking the gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r3 ebuild itself:
36 >
37 > K_GENPATCHES_VER="6"
38 >
39 > If you trace the eclass inherits, you'll almost certainly find that the
40 > K_GENPATCHES_VER variable is used to determine which patch tarball is
41 > applied, and further looking into that will find the tarball complete with
42 > all the listed changes for that release.
43 >
44 > So... just sync and emerge the latest gentoo-sources, and you should get
45 > the stuff in patch release 6. No keyword changes required!
46
47 Thank you very much.
48
49 P.V.Anthony
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