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From: Greg KH <gregkh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] kernel team: please make up your mind
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 22:32:20
Message-Id: 20040709223015.GB6610@kroah.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] kernel team: please make up your mind by Mike Frysinger
1 On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 06:20:36PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > On Friday 09 July 2004 06:17 pm, Jason Wever wrote:
3 > > > > > - development-sources are clean kernel.org kernels
4 > >
5 > > Isn't this what vanilla-sources is for?
6 >
7 > yes and no
8 > vanilla is for 2.4
9
10 There's a 2.0 and 2.2 kernel in there too, how do people handle those?
11
12 > development is for 2.6
13
14 What's going to happen when 2.7 is released?
15
16 > we havent merged them via SLOT because portage would cause a lot of users to
17 > 'upgrade' to 2.6 and we dont want that kind of bug reports on
18 > forums/bugzilla/mailing lists
19
20 That wouldn't be such a bad thing to force to happen anyway :)
21
22 thanks,
23
24 greg k-h
25
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Re: [gentoo-dev] kernel team: please make up your mind Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>