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"Mark Haney" <mhaney@××××××××××××.org> posted |
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4548D810.3010103@××××××××××××.org, excerpted below, on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 |
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12:23:28 -0500: |
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> Is it just me or is the .18 kernel slow in getting unmasked? I don't |
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> recall any other releases taking as long to be marked stable, but then I |
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> haven't been quite as anxious to test a new kernel as I have been for |
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> .18. I'm sure people are running it, so I ask, how is it? Has it been |
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> stable or is it not quite ready for us 'less than hardcore' testers? |
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FWIW, I handle my kernel stuff directly, downloading from kernel.org, not |
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thru portage. Thus, I care not one whit about Gentoo's kernel |
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stabilizing. If a new kernel.org kernel doesn't work, I just keep using |
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the old one until the next -rc or whatever that /does/ work. I had been |
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doing it that way long before I switched to Gentoo, so I just kept doing |
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what I had always done. The only thing I needed to do was add a kernel |
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entry to package.provided, so various packages in portage with a |
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dependency on the kernel knew it was there. Here's my package.provided |
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file. Note that I use ridiculously high versions like 999, or 2.6.999 for |
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the kernel, so I don't have to worry about dependency version number creep: |
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~$cat /etc/portage/profile/package.provided |
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# portage always considers these packages merged, |
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# and won't attempt to merge them. |
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################################################################################ |
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# profile related |
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# in profile as virtual/ssh but unneeded |
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net-misc/openssh-99 |
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# in profile but unneeded |
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sys-apps/busybox-99 |
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# don't use Gentoo kernels |
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sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.999 |
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################################################################################ |
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# X-related |
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# xorg-server thinks it needs, but 100dpi better |
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media-fonts/font-adobe-75dpi-99 |
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# xinit needs for default Xsession, I use kde |
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x11-apps/xsm-99 |
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# don't need xterm since I use kde/konsole |
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x11-terms/xterm-999 |
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################################################################################ |
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# proprietaryware related |
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# imagemagick thinks it needs |
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media-fonts/corefonts-99 |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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