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On 24/07/13 01:37 PM, Peter Stuge wrote: |
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> Mike Pagano wrote: |
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>> Team members working alongside upstream (and downstream) developer Greg k-h |
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>> have decided to no longer request stabilization of the vanilla sources kernel. |
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>> Team members and arch teams (understandably) are unable to keep up with the |
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>> 1-2 weekly kernel releases, and therefore will now direct users to always run |
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>> the latest vanilla sources |
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> Maybe it would make sense to automatically stabilize every v-s kernel |
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> right away? |
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> //Peter |
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As has been stated, this implies that Gentoo QA has tested the packages |
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and found them to be reasonably safe for use. |
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Although stable kernels *have* been tested by many people before use, |
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Gentoo QA has *not* (officially) tested them, at least not on every |
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architecture. |
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On a technical level, it's not that hard to put |
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"sys-kernel/vanilla-sources" in your package.accept_keywords. |
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