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From: Dhruba Bandopadhyay <dhruba@××××××××××××.uk>
To: Matt Rickard <frogger@g.o>, gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Where to put prerelease vanilla kernels?
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 18:07:07
Message-Id: 3F1ECEAC.1000904@codewordt.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Where to put prerelease vanilla kernels? by Matt Rickard
1 Matt Rickard wrote:
2 > Portage currently does not contain any vanilla prerelease kernels (i.e.
3 > 2.4.22_pre7). Bug 25107 is a request for this, and it seems reasonable
4 > to have these kernels in portage, since we have pretty much every other
5 > kernel branch you could think of in there :)
6
7 Yes. Absolutely right.
8
9 > I'm wondering what's the best way to handle these? First option is to
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11 How about splitting development-sources into 2.6.x and 2.4.x trees?
12 It's not like 2.6.x is the only branch undergoing 'development'.
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14 As to how to split this I'll leave up to you. Adding a suffix to it to
15 give rise to two categories may be an idea. Just some thoughts.
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17 With regards.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Where to put prerelease vanilla kernels? Jay Pfeifer <pfeifer@g.o>