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All, |
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It looks like that sometime around Linux 3.15, some kind of a quirk was |
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introduced where a patch that contains the removal of a symlink followed by the |
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addition of a file with the same name as the symlink causes patch's --dry-run |
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phase to fail, which kills 'epatch'. See Bug #507656. |
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A workaround was added to kernel-2.eclass, around line 1093, that hardcodes a |
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check for sys-kernel/git-sources, to avoid this issue. Well, |
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sys-kernel/mips-sources is also affected by the same issue. I'm close to |
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releasing a newer mips-sources, having spent the last few months |
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re-writing/refactoring chunks of old SGI IP27/BRIDGE code, and rather than add |
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another hardcode to kernel-2, I instead created a new variable, K_FROM_GIT, |
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that will replace the hardcode. |
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When set to a value, it triggers the workaround, which still affects current |
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kernels. This results in a cleaner implementation instead of a hardcoded |
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ebuild, should future kernel packages sourced from a git repo get added. |
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Patch is attached for review. |
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Thanks! |
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Joshua Kinard |
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Gentoo/MIPS |
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kumba@g.o |
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6144R/F5C6C943 2015-04-27 |
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177C 1972 1FB8 F254 BAD0 3E72 5C63 F4E3 F5C6 C943 |
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"The past tempts us, the present confuses us, the future frightens us. And our |
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lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast, terrible in-between." |
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--Emperor Turhan, Centauri Republic |
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