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From: Travis Tilley <lv@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] development-sources are not 'development'
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 10:26:14
Message-Id: 412B17E7.1020201@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] development-sources are not 'development' by Peter Gordon
1 Peter Gordon wrote:
2
3 > Couldn't we just use different ebuild versions?
4 >
5 > # emerge ">=gentoo-sources-2.6"
6 > # emerge "=gentoo-sources-2.4.27"
7 >
8 > Or something similar? Would that work?
9
10
11 the functionality needed to have something like that work as expected
12 wont be in portage until maybe 2.0.53. the package has to have a
13 different name for now... the issue is that the name development-sources
14 is misleading.
15
16 perhaps the 2.4 kernel ebuilds should be in legacy-sources? ;)
17 from kernel.org:
18 The latest stable version of the Linux kernel is: *2.6.8.1
19 <http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/patch-2.6.8.1.bz2>
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22 Travis Tilley <lv@g.o>
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Re: [gentoo-dev] development-sources are not 'development' Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>