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From: Alvaro Figueroa <fede2@××××××××××××××××××.cr>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Where to put prerelease vanilla kernels?
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 18:02:57
Message-Id: 1061833403.3759.4.camel@vienna
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Where to put prerelease vanilla kernels? by Sven Vermeulen
1 On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 02:28, Sven Vermeulen wrote:
2 > Personally, I would go for package.mask
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4 I like this solution better. I don't know how many of you know that on
5 some 2.4 version, Marcelo forgot to add a patch that was added to -rc4,
6 to the realeased kernel. So I had to use this kernel on splack
7 (slackware for sparc) instead of the released kernel, because this patch
8 was extremely important on archs other than intel.
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10 If you had a package mask, this could be handleded more gracefully.
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