Re: [gentoo-kernel] kernel-2.eclass: Easier way to use genpatches in ebuilds

[John Mylchreest]

This approach is fine with me, anything which makes life easier.
I have attached the kernel-2 from my overlay which as per bug #96510
If you agree with the idea, (its been tested) then please feel free to
merge and commit.

if you don't like the prerm stuff, just ditch it and apply to the
current stable.

Thanks for the work.
- John


On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 13:52 +0100, Daniel Drake wrote:
> This provides an easier way for kernel-2 users to apply genpatches.
>
> In the attached ebuild example, ck-sources-2.6.12_p2.ebuild, all that is
> needed is:
>
> K_WANT_GENPATCHES="base"
> K_GENPATCHES_VER="1"
>
> The above will translate to genpatches-2.6.12-1.base.tar.bz2
> The only other thing you need to do is add $GENPATCHES_URI to SRC_URI and then
> you will get genpatches applied with unipatch.
>
> Any comments?
> plain text document attachment (ck-sources-2.6.12_p2.ebuild)
> # Copyright 1999-2005 Gentoo Foundation
> # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
> # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sys-kernel/ck-sources/ck-sources-2.6.11_p10.ebuild,v 1.1 2005/06/13 02:07:56 marineam Exp $
>
> K_PREPATCHED="yes"
> UNIPATCH_STRICTORDER="yes"
> K_NOUSENAME="yes"
> K_WANT_GENPATCHES="base"
> K_GENPATCHES_VER="1"
> ETYPE="sources"
> inherit kernel-2
> detect_version
>
> # A few hacks to set ck version via _p instead of -r
> MY_P=${P/_p*/}
> MY_PR=${PR/r/-r}
> MY_PR=${MY_PR/-r0/}
> EXTRAVERSION=-ck${PV/*_p/}${MY_PR}
> KV_FULL=${OKV}${EXTRAVERSION}
> KV_CK=${KV_FULL/-r*/}
> detect_version
>
> IUSE="ck-server"
> if use ck-server; then
> 	CK_PATCH="patch-${KV_CK}-server.bz2"
> else
> 	CK_PATCH="patch-${KV_CK}.bz2"
> fi
>
> UNIPATCH_LIST="${DISTDIR}/${CK_PATCH}"
>
> DESCRIPTION="Full sources for the Stock Linux kernel and Con Kolivas's high performance patchset"
> HOMEPAGE="http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/"
> SRC_URI="${KERNEL_URI} ${GENPATCHES_URI}
> 	ck-server? ( http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/2.6/${OKV}/${KV_CK}/patch-${KV_CK}-server.bz2 )
> 	!ck-server? ( http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/2.6/${OKV}/${KV_CK}/patch-${KV_CK}.bz2 )"
>
> KEYWORDS="~x86 ~amd64"
>
> pkg_postinst() {
> 	postinst_sources
>
> 	einfo "The ck patchset is tuned for desktop usage."
> 	einfo "To better tune the kernel for server applications add"
> 	einfo "ck-server to your use flags and reemerge ck-sources"
> }
>