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On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 23:54 -0700, Josh Saddler wrote: |
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> 1) kick out any and all code references to 2.4 kernels, assuming none |
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> are available for that arch -- note that things like vanilla-sources |
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> (which may have been a 2.4 kernel package) are unsupported. 2.6 only as |
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> much as possible. |
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No architectures are shipping 2.4-enabled media. You can still do an |
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install for 2.4 on a couple arches, but nobody's shipping it. |
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> 2) update kernel install directions: no more "cp vmlinuz foo" or any |
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> more "cp arch/whatever bar". let's get this thing modernized. No need |
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> for it; a simple "make && make modules_install && make install" does the |
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> whole thing for you, no manual intervention is required, beyond reading |
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> grub.conf to make sure it's pointed to kernel /vmlinuz. "make install" |
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> is much better than the cp crap. |
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Personally, I don't like this one, but I'm not really the one making the |
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calls here. My main complaint is that it's actually very inconsistent |
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in what it does across multiple architectures. As someone who owns (and |
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uses) 9 architectures, I prefer the manual instructions better as it |
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gives me a clearer picture of what is actually going on behind the |
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scenes. |
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> Thoughts? Also, can I get some help in tracking down people from the |
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> alpha, hppa, sparc, and MIPS arch teams on answering a few questions, |
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> such as do they have a packages CD for this release (or any other |
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> CD/media changes), what version will their included kernel be, any |
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> changes to the CFLAGS currently listed at the top of handbook-$arch.xml, |
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> etc. Maybe someone from releng knows all that? Would be much |
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> appreciated, thanks. Well, in addition to finding out the usual "has |
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> anything changed in the install procedures for your arch in this |
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> release". ;) |
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Well, all you have to do is ask. ;] |
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Alpha and SPARC will have a packages CD. |
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I'll get the rest for you today. |
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> I figure we have two weeks, tops, to make this all happen, so let's pull |
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> it together and get rolling. I've already added the networked stuff to |
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> draft/ and have begun working on them. Go get 'em! :) |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering Strategic Lead |
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Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams |
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Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee |
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Gentoo Foundation |