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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-kernel@l.g.o
Cc: kernel-misc@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-kernel] virtual/linux-sources-2.6
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 16:03:23
Message-Id: 20012.14411.851203.673718@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-kernel] virtual/linux-sources-2.6 by Stratos Psomadakis
1 >>>>> On Sat, 23 Jul 2011, Stratos Psomadakis wrote:
2
3 > On 07/23/2011 07:09 PM, Krzysztof Pawlik wrote:
4 >> Currently virtual/linux-sources-2.6 depends on sys-kernel/foo-2.6*,
5 >> should we create virtual/linux-sources-3.0 (and start fixing
6 >> ebuilds depending on =virtual/linux-sources-2.6) or just change
7 >> virtual/linux-sources-2.6 to depend on >=2.6 ? Opinions?
8
9 Currently version 3.0 is only available with vanilla-sources and
10 gentoo-sources. Therefore the problem is that virtual/linux-sources-3
11 would pull in one of these even for users of other *-sources (e.g.
12 hardened).
13
14 On the other hand, allowing versions 3.* as dependency of
15 virtual/linux-sources-2.6 might be confusing.
16
17 Therefore, my suggestion would be as follows:
18 1. Temporarily change the dependency in virtual/linux-sources-2.6
19 to >=2.6 in order to resolve the current issues with dependencies.
20 2. Later, when most of *-sources are available in version 3.*, revert
21 linux-sources-2.6 to the current dependency and create
22 virtual/linux-sources-3. (I think the version should be just 3 and
23 not 3.0, unless you want a virtual for 3.0, 3.1, etc.)
24
25 Or, a completely different approach: Drop the versioning of the
26 virtual altogether and have only virtual/linux-sources-0. (This might
27 cause some minor problems for users of 2.4 profiles, but I'd guess
28 that the remaining users are experienced enough to handle that.)
29
30 > CC'ed maintainers / herd.
31
32 Thanks.
33
34 Ulrich

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-kernel] virtual/linux-sources-2.6 Krzysztof Pawlik <nelchael@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-kernel] virtual/linux-sources-2.6 Stratos Psomadakis <psomas@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-kernel] virtual/linux-sources-2.6 Mike Pagano <mpagano@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-kernel] virtual/linux-sources-2.6 Peter Volkov <pva@g.o>