Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Mikael Hallendal <hallski@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] linux-sources-vanilla ebuilds
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 02:56:15
Message-Id: 87elqu96zv.fsf@codefactory.se
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] linux-sources-vanilla ebuilds by Dan Armak
1 Dan Armak <danarmak@g.o> writes:
2
3 > > Well, normally, I'd say "patch linux-sources-vanilla so the kernel
4 > >name is linux-vanilla-x.y.z". But this goes against the no-patch
5 > >concept of the vanilla sources. Therefore, we should patch our
6 > >already-patched kernels so they show up as linux-gentoo-x.y.z.
7 > >Please place all your work in the package.mask for the time being,
8 > >since they will conflict with our patched kernel. I'll get our
9 > >official kernel patched before 1.0_rc6 is released; add a wiki item
10 > >for the system team to remind me.
11
12 Hi!
13
14 Yepp, I also think that it's better to rename our modified kernel to
15 be named linux-gentoo-x.y.z and leave the vanilla one unmodified.
16
17 Regards,
18 Mikael Hallendal
19
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