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From: Stratos Psomadakis <psomas@g.o>
To: Krzysztof Pawlik <nelchael@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-kernel@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-kernel] virtual/linux-sources-2.6
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 18:04:42
Message-Id: 4E2B03EC.3080709@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-kernel] virtual/linux-sources-2.6 by Krzysztof Pawlik
1 On 07/23/2011 07:09 PM, Krzysztof Pawlik wrote:
2 > Hello,
3 >
4 > Currently virtual/linux-sources-2.6 depends on sys-kernel/foo-2.6*, should we
5 > create virtual/linux-sources-3.0 (and start fixing ebuilds depending on
6 > =virtual/linux-sources-2.6) or just change virtual/linux-sources-2.6 to depend
7 > on >=2.6 ? Opinions?
8 >
9 > Side note, with only vanilla-sources-3.0 installed:
10 > * Dependencies could not be completely resolved due to
11 > * the following required packages not being installed:
12 > *
13 > * =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6* pulled in by:
14 > * virtual/linux-sources-2.6
15 I think we should go with the second solution, change linux-sources-2.6
16 to depend on >=2.6. There's no reason to add another virtual ebuild for
17 3.0 (would we have to add separate ebuilds for 4.0, 5.0 etc?)
18
19 Btw, I found this mail [1] on gentoo-dev mailing list, about
20 virtual/linux-sources.
21
22 [1]
23 http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_adb45dedc05bc023de23be90015e8629.xml
24
25 --
26 Stratos Psomadakis
27 <psomas@g.o>

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