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On Friday 03 October 2003 11:23 am, Brad Laue wrote: |
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> Brian Jackson wrote: |
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> > USE flags is a bad way to do things, lets say you have 116 patches (the |
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latest |
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> > pfeifer-sources does). If the 32nd patch is optional based on a use flag, |
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it |
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> > could take away parts that a later patch relies on, which would make the |
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> > entire patchset fail. Now obviously this has been working since the |
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current |
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> > gentoo-sources and older pfeifer-sources does this, but it only works |
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because |
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> > all the patches have to be specially diffed in just the right order. At |
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> > present time we don't have the manpower to do this. |
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> Fair enough; three patchsets would probably equal the amount of work |
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> required to maintain three kernels. In that case maybe expanding |
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> gentoo-sources' patchset to cover the fundamentals (it's my |
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> understanding XFS among other things I'm after are in pfeifer-sources, |
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> it's just a matter of getting it out the door). |
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livewire is supposed to start working on gs-sources again, though I don't know |
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if it will have everything you are after. |
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> If grsec-sources and others do exist though, I think a lot of the |
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> gentoo-sources stuff should exist as a subset, though - when I switched |
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> from gentoo- to xfs-sources a great deal of iptables functionality was |
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> missing - thankfully grsecurity was still there, though. |
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> Another good idea would be to document the content of the kernels on |
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> gentoo.org to make it easier to choose from. |
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you mean like |
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http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/kernel/kernel.xml |
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(linked of the project page, which is in turn linked off the fornt page) |
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and |
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http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-kernel.xml |
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(linked off the above kernel page) |
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> Brad |
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