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On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 06:41:49PM -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 16:13, Greg KH wrote: |
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> > But then what is preventing us from having both a 2.4 and 2.6 version of |
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> > gentoo-sources? Is it the following statement in that same file: |
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> Nothing... which was why we had the vote at the manager's meeting. |
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Great, I didn't realize that was the outcome. |
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> While I have planned out a fairly extensive timeline, if the kernel |
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> developers decided they wished to merge the two, I would think that is |
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> their prerogative. |
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Well, I'll gladly do it tomorrow if I'm allowed to :) |
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But what was your timeline? |
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> Kernels are already SLOTted based on their version, so I don't think it |
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> would cause a problem. All we would have to do is be sure to document |
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> that if a user wants to stick with a 2.4 gentoo-sources, that they |
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> should p.mask >=sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.5* |
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If that's it, that's not so bad. But where do we document such a |
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change? |
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thanks, |
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greg k-h |
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