Re: [gentoo-dev] linux-sources-vanilla ebuilds

[Dan Armak]

On Wednesday 01 August 2001 22:44, you wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 10:29:07PM +0300, Dan Armak wrote:
> > > OK; please use sys-kernel/linux-sources-2.4.6 as your model for
> > > creating this new ebuild.  (Remove all the patches, but keep everything
> > > else)
> >
> > I was going to, but there are so many if these patches and configs I
> > think maybe I'll be better off writing from scratch. After all it only
> > has to extract an archive and little else.
>
> Please follow my instructions.  That's an order :)  When you strip out all
> those patches you'll realize that there are several important commands that
> you probably would not think of adding if you didn't use linux-sources as
> a base.
> > > /usr/src/linux-vanilla-x.y.z should be good.
> >
> > The problem is: when there are several linux-sources and
> > linux-sources-vanilla emerged together, in /usr/src there are the links
> > 'linux' and 'linux-2.4' ehich must point to either sources or vanilla.
> > How do we decide? Do we create a link to ourselves (i.e. vanilla) if
> > there is no other link?  A worse problem is /lib/modules. Here each
> > kernel's modules dir is only identified by the version number, and each
> > has a link back to its kernel sources! What do we do?
>
> Well, normally, I'd say "patch linux-sources-vanilla so the kernel name is
> linux-vanilla-x.y.z".  But this goes against the no-patch concept of the
> vanilla sources.  Therefore, we should patch our already-patched kernels so
> they show up as linux-gentoo-x.y.z.  Please place all your work in the
> package.mask for the time being, since they will conflict with our patched
> kernel.  I'll get our official kernel patched before 1.0_rc6 is released;
> add a wiki item for the system team to remind me.
OK. I'll follow orders.


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Dan Armak
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team
Matan, Israel