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On Friday 03 October 2003 03:34 pm, Brian Jackson wrote: |
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> On Friday 03 October 2003 04:36 am, Brad Laue wrote: |
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> USE flags is a bad way to do things, lets say you have 116 patches (the |
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> latest pfeifer-sources does). If the 32nd patch is optional based on a use |
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> flag, it could take away parts that a later patch relies on, which would |
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> make the entire patchset fail. Now obviously this has been working since |
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> the current gentoo-sources and older pfeifer-sources does this, but it only |
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> works because all the patches have to be specially diffed in just the right |
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> order. At present time we don't have the manpower to do this. |
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Or the patches could be converted to a format which would support multiple |
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before cases. There may be a way to automate this, but it would need further |
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investigation. |
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Another suggestion... Why not move away from -sources and make ebuilds based |
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on genkernel (eg. sys-kernel/{,{gentoo,redhat,suse,...}-}linux). There would |
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need to be something for manual configuration changes, but I believe |
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genkernel already supports something like this. The only problem I can see is |
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that it would end up recompiling the entire kernel for every configuration |
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change, though that's a Portage bug that affects all ebuilds currently. |
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Is there any reason to install the kernel sources anymore and not do this? |
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Luke-Jr |
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Developer, Gentoo Linux |
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http://www.gentoo.org/ |
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