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From: Jason Cooper <gentoo@××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] kernel 2.6.8.1 versioning change
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 15:23:13
Message-Id: 20040814152311.GB9503@lakedaemon.net
1 Well, as per the thread on lkml, it looks like 2.6.8 was released with a
2 nasty bug in NFS write support. So Linus took this opportunity to try
3 out the new version scheme and released 2.6.8.1, which fixes the NFS
4 problem.
5
6 #### Quoting Linus ####
7
8 On Sat, 14 Aug 2004, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
9 >
10 > Cane we make this 2.6.9 to avoid breaking all kinds of scripts
11 > expecting
12 > three-digit kernel versions?
13
14 Well, we've been discussing the 2.6.x.y format for a while, so I see
15 this
16 as an opportunity to actually do it... Will it break automated scripts?
17 Maybe. But on the other hand, we'll never even find out unless we try it
18 some time.
19
20 Linus
21
22 #### End quote ####
23
24 So i copied d-s-2.6.8.ebuild to my overlay and named it
25 d-s-2.6.8.1.ebuild.
26
27 # ebuild development-sources-2.6.8.1.ebuild digest
28
29 successfully downloaded the kernel tarball, then it gave the following
30 error:
31
32 ### begin error ###
33 Resolving www.de.kernel.org... 80.252.110.38, 129.143.116.10
34 Connecting to www.de.kernel.org[80.252.110.38]:80... connected.
35 HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
36 Length: 35,628,066 [application/x-tar]
37
38 100%[====================================>] 35,628,066 385.59K/s
39 ETA 00:00
40
41 11:10:58 (383.01 KB/s) - `/usr/portage/distfiles/linux-2.6.8.1.tar.bz2'
42 saved [35628066/35628066]
43
44 >>> Generating digest file...
45 <<<
46 ebuild: this ebuild generated output during the depend phase (bad)
47
48 ### end error ###
49
50 Looks like this is one of the 'scripts' Linus was talking about :-)
51
52 I looked at the ebuild (I've changed KEYWORDS in the past, but that's
53 about it). There just isn't enough there to find something wrong. Does
54 anyone have an idea how to fix this? It looks like the new scheme is
55 going to be around a while...
56
57 tia,
58
59 Cooper.
60
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