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Hi Kumba,
On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 11:37:15PM -0500, Kumba wrote:
> fwiw, I've got mips-sources modified to follow the upstream kernel.org
> notation of 2.6.x.y (even though our primary upstream, linux-mips.org,
> doesn't utilize this notation at all).
mips-sources doesn't use genpatches, so the two can not really be
compared.
> There's logic in the ebuild that can switch between using -rc, point
> releases (the .y ones) and standard versions, and it modifies the logic to
> fetch the appropriate patch(es) from upstream to save on what we need to
> upload to the gentoo mirrors.
The logic for doing so in genpatches based sources are in kernel-2.eclass.
Regards,
Brix
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