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From: donnie berkholz <spyderous@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Where to put prerelease vanilla kernels?
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 19:22:58
Message-Id: 200307231421.08789.spyderous@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Where to put prerelease vanilla kernels? by Chris Gianelloni
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4 On Wednesday 23 July 2003 14:16, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
5 > Well, 2.4.22_pre1 is newer than 2.4.21, however, 2.4.21 is the latest
6 > stable kernel from kernel.org. Portage would see 2.4.22_pre1 as newer
7 > and would merge it rather than 2.4.21 when someone installed
8 > vanilla-sources. The only effective way to separate them is to have
9 > them in a separate container.
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11 Or, as frogger suggested, to have them ~arch. If you want a "stable" kernel,
12 you shouldn't be using ~arch anyway so you'll end up with the straight
13 releases. If you want the pre's, rc's etc. emerge ~arch vanilla-sources.
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15 The idea seems to have been almost passed over, and I don't see why.
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