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On Mon, 1 Jul 2013 21:55:23 +0200 |
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Fabio Erculiani <lxnay@g.o> wrote: |
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> I believe that end users would benefit more from kernel binary ebuilds |
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> (ebuilds building an actual kernel with an official config), rather |
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> than all this. |
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There's been a start on this, but we're looking at you now; feel free |
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to communicate with Zero_Chaos about this to clarify why and how you do |
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certain matters, make sure (just ping me on IRC after a conversation |
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with him or so) I can follow along so I can more easily bring this into |
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the Portage tree; as at least someone on the kernel herd needs to |
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understand what is going on with all of that |
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There is a bug filed for this with some work from him. |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=472906 |
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Separate from this whole thread; we definitely have some thoughts about |
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this in mind, and I'll give you one cool thought: Having the kernel |
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build the sources can allow the kernel to automatically rebuild out of |
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kernel modules; eg. `emerge sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel` and it will |
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rebuild nvidia-drivers, virtualbox, ... Of course, for this to work we |
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would need to propagate sub slot rebuilds through virtuals. |
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We thinked through some possible problems and solutions that appear; |
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but I would like to keep them out of this ML thread; as to not mix a |
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thought out idea with one that does some early circles in our minds. |
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On a side note; I'm currently testing genpatches using an ebuild I |
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hacked together myself, allows me to test the way eclass does the |
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patches as well as include some neat local QA checks and testing magic. |
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With kind regards, |
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Tom Wijsman (TomWij) |
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Gentoo Developer |
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