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On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 11:37:15PM -0500, Kumba <kumba@g.o> wrote: |
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> Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: |
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> fwiw, I've got mips-sources modified to follow the upstream kernel.org |
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> notation of 2.6.x.y (even though our primary upstream, linux-mips.org, |
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> doesn't utilize this notation at all). |
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> There's logic in the ebuild that can switch between using -rc, point |
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> releases (the .y ones) and standard versions, and it modifies the logic to |
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> fetch the appropriate patch(es) from upstream to save on what we need to |
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> upload to the gentoo mirrors. |
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> Been following this since ~2.6.12, and we haven't had any issues with the |
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> versioning in portage or reported from users. mips-headers even uses it |
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> now. |
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On that note, whats the chances of getting mips-sources/headers to use |
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kernel-2? ALl the logic exists already in there anyways (has done for |
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ages) and it would reduce that 500 odd line ebuild down to ~50 :) |
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