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John Mylchreest posted these objectives in January. I'm not John so I guess |
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he'll follow up with anything I missed :) |
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>> Migrate all existing ebuilds to kernel-2 and linux-* eclasses. |
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This is progressing and can realistically be completed before the end of the year. |
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>> Push 2.6 for default where possible for headers and sources. |
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This is done as of 2005.0 |
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>> Consolidate appropriate source packages. |
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ie: dev-sources -> vanilla-sources, |
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gentoo-dev-sources -> gentoo-sources. |
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This is done as of 2005.0 |
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>> Further improve our current eclass framework to better support |
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- Additional kernels (fbsd, darwin etc) |
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As far as I am aware, we haven't looked into supporting these alternative |
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kernels yet. |
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- Headers |
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This is done, kernel-2.eclass now handles headers as well as sources. |
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>> Start sanity checks for 2.7 prep |
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Since January it has become increasingly clear that 2.7 is not currently in |
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the pipeline at all. |
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As well as the above, the genpatches patchset has greatly improved in quality |
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- we've been able to drop some of the big feature patches such as pegasos |
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support and multipath device mapper because they are merged upstream. There |
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are 3 other feature patches that I expect to be merged upstream before the end |
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of this year. |
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The new linux-stable upstream branch greatly reduces our genpatches |
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maintenance, and patches are regularly contributed from genpatches into |
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linux-stable to benefit other distro's too. |
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In January, genpatches was only used for gentoo-sources. The 'base' section of |
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genpatches is now used for gentoo-sources, hardened-sources, ck-sources, |
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win4lin-sources and usermode-sources. This makes maintaining the kernel |
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packages easier because its easier to keep up to date with the security patches. |
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genpatches also gained an automatically generated website which users seem to |
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like, and moved out of bitkeeper and into gentoo-hosted subversion. |
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Some kernels such as wolk-sources have been removed from portage to slim down |
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our sys-kernel category. |
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To keep up with the constant flow of kernel security patches, plasmaroo is |
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developing a security patch tracking site to be used instead of kernel GLSA's. |
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The site is used internally at the moment and proving very useful, and will |
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probably be finished and made public before the end of this year. |
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Daniel |
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