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On 16/04/2020 10:21, Ashley Dixon wrote: |
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> On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 10:08:45AM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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>> There's also sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel but it's description is confusing as |
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>> hell: "Linux kernel built with Gentoo patches". Which to me sounds exactly |
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>> like gentoo-kernel-bin just with slightly different wording... :-/ |
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> The difference can be seen in the ebuild source U.R.I.s: |
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> gentoo-kernel-bin: https://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/binpkg/amd64/kernel/ \ |
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> sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel/${MY_P}.xpak |
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> gentoo-kernel: https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/ ... + |
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> patches from https://dev.gentoo.org/~mpagano/dist/genpatches |
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> The wording is horrible, but as the suffix ("-bin") would suggest, the former is |
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> a binary .xpak package, whereas the latter is base kernel sources with |
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> additional Gentoo developers' patches. |
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I still don't understand what that means. If it's a pre-built kernel, |
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then it sounds the same as gentoo-kernel-bin. If it's sources, then it |
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sounds the same as gentoo-sources. |
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