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

[Daniel Robbins]

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.

Best Regards,

-- 
Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@g.o>
Chief Architect/President			http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.