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On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 10:41 PM, Tom Wijsman <TomWij@g.o> wrote: |
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> Hello everyone |
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> Attached you will find the various changes I plan to apply to |
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> kernel-2.eclass after a week if there are no objections, feel free to |
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> take a look at them. A summary of the changes: |
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> - Added a warning after the variables that modifying other variables in |
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> the eclass is not supported, there is a chance that we will not fix |
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> resulting bugs. Fixes bug #421721. |
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Why? |
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Just to annoy people who have successfully used kernel-2.eclass until |
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now, and in my case for half a decade (or even more)? |
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If you need help with maintaining the current eclass functionality, |
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I'd be more than happy. I don't really want to fork it myself :-). |
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[..] |
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> - Kernel sources and (gen)patches now use xz instead of bz2. Fixes bug |
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> #421721. |
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As I said in the bug, next time you plan a migration like that, it |
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would be nice to send an heads up on the ML beforehand. |
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Like you did in this case, but actually, _beforehand_ and not ~one month later. |
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> Have a nice day. :) |
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> With kind regards, |
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> Tom Wijsman (TomWij) |
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> Gentoo Developer |
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> E-mail address : TomWij@g.o |
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> GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D |
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Fabio Erculiani |