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On Sunday, August 04, 2013 07:24:23 PM Alex Xu wrote: |
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> wat. Possibly intended: |
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> > For the latest upstream kernel unpatched by Gentoo |
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Not intended |
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Title: vanilla-sources stabilization policy |
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Author: Mike Pagano <mpagano@g.o> |
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Content-Type: text/plain |
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Posted: 2013-08-07 |
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Revision: 1 |
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News-Item-Format: 1.0 |
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Display-If-Installed: sys-kernel/vanilla-sources |
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The Gentoo Kernel Team will no longer be providing stable |
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vanilla-sources kernels. All currently stabilized vanilla-sources |
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versions will be dropped to ~arch. The Arch teams, via normal requests |
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of the Kernel Team, will continue to stabilize gentoo-sources kernels |
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upon request. This decision is based on the facts that upstream is now |
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releasing approximately 1-2 vanilla-sources kernels a week. Arch teams, |
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understandably, are unable to keep up with this rate of release. As |
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most vanilla releases contain security fixes, the user who only runs |
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stable vanilla-sources will consistently be behind and potentially at |
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risk. For the latest "upstream kernel unpatched by Gentoo", we |
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recommend users add 'sys-kernel/vanilla-sources' to their |
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package.accept_keywords file. gentoo-sources will continue to be a |
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tested and supported version for Gentoo users. |
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Note: This news item only applies to gentoo-sources and vanilla-sources. |
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Other kernels currently maintained in portage have their own policies |
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and procedures in place today. |
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Mike Pagano |
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Gentoo Developer - Kernel Project |
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E-Mail : mpagano@g.o |
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GnuPG FP : EEE2 601D 0763 B60F 848C 9E14 3C33 C650 B576 E4E3 |
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