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On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 19:49, Greg KH wrote: |
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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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The timeline that we had laid out and that was agreed upon was to make |
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the change around February, which gives 6 months to "prove" that both |
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gentoo-dev-sources and udev are capable of becoming the defaults for the |
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virtual/linux-sources and virtual/dev-manager. The idea is for us to |
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start using them both much heavier. The 2004.3 release will only have |
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one kernel on the CD (gentoo-dev-sources) and will use udev, so it will |
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definitely help us iron out any bugs which are still around. I would |
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think the only thing really slowing adoption is the non-sysfs aware |
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drivers out there, which need either patches, or to be fixed upstream. |
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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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The handbook would definitely be a good place to start. I also think it |
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wouldn't be a bad idea to put a sticky on the forums and an article on |
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the front page, when such a change occurs. The idea would be to put the |
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information in as many places as possible, so our users would be able to |
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find it easily. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Operations/QA Manager |
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Games - Developer |
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Gentoo Linux |
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